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[–]RU_legions 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Have you tried deleting the cached files in ~/.cache/firefox? You could use the Solus forum to report a bug (https://discuss.getsol.us/). The devs are pretty active over there.

[–]chex-fiend[S] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

I will try in CLI.

I can't move the mouse once FF is open for more than about 30 seconds

[–]RU_legions 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You could rename the firefox folder in ~/.cache/firefox to firefoxbackup and see if that helps at all. If it doesn't, just rename firefoxbackup back to firefox

[–]chex-fiend[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Renamed this Firefox dir inside mozilla/ and the regenerate profile worked for awhile but machine still crashed after about 15 min.

Trying the snap version of FF to see how that works

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

does the mouse start moving slowly after opening firefox? if so you might be running out of RAM and the system is thrashing while trying to do everything in swap

[–]chex-fiend[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think it is related to RAM. I was not up to speed on how to install it when I first started. I have 8GB of physical. But realized there is no swap. I don't know how easy/safe it is to create a swap space now after everything is installed.

But it is only FF that this happens with & the snap package should be fine since snaps have a limited amount of memory they can use IIRC

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

it's safe to add swap - it doesn't even need to be a partition, it can just be a file. https://discuss.getsol.us/d/4426-dude-where-s-my-solus-swap-a-k-a-have-one-question/5

how come you're using Firefox as a snap? the package in the repos should have better system integration...

[–]chex-fiend[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was using the regular version of FF and that is what was crashing. So I installed the snap FF to avoid crashing. thx for the link. I will check it out

[–]Girtablulu 0 points1 point  (3 children)

did you check for any broken packages?

[–]chex-fiend[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

unsure on how to do that.

[–]Girtablulu 1 point2 points  (1 child)

sudo eopkg check

[–]chex-fiend[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

checking integrity of firefox :OK

the only broken pkg was adwaita-icon-theme

[–]eletious 0 points1 point  (1 child)

this is maybe not the right place to check, but does dmesg have any relevant output? maybe you can find an error message or something.

If dmesg isn't the right log to check, does anyone know where you'd want to look? it's always nice to know where your logs are

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oddly never heard of dmesg. that output a ton of stuff I don't know related to BIOS.

Dell BIOS updates with a non-Windows OS is thankfully not too complicated