Firefox and Chrome Crashing Constantly
Firefox and Chrome Are Constantly Crashing, Even with All Extensions Removed. Everything Is Updated/Upgraded on Ubuntu 20.04. It's Been This Way for Months...
Firefox and Chrome are constantly crashing, even with all extensions removed. Everything is updated/upgraded on Ubuntu 20.04. It's been this way for months. Rebooting seems to stabilize the browsers for a little while, like 5-10 minutes, before they start crashing again. Firefox is more stable with only one tab open. Chrome crashes constantly with only one tab open. Moving the mouse around seems to trigger crashes a lot.
Today I checked "use recommended performance settings" and left hardware acceleration unchecked in Firefox settings. I will see if this makes any difference. Till now, neither box was checked.
I have two Nvidia M750 graphics cards.
$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15977 1822 12219 56 1935 13775
Swap: 2047 0 2047
1 Answer
A somewhat helpful solution was in Firefox settings to choose "use recommended performance settings" and leave hardware acceleration unchecked. Then reboot.
Firefox is causing segmentation faults that made launching Chrome afterwards unstable. Both browsers are running better with a lot fewer crashes, but crashes are still happening, especially after waking from sleep.
I had posted this as the answer, but it's only a 75 percent helpful answer.
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