Firefox crashes computer only on hlwm

[Thorsten Wißmann]

Hi,

I've never heard about this issue. Can you create an issue on github[1]
for this? The issue tracker is read by more people than this mailing
list, so maybe someone else has experienced a similar issue.

Best,
Thorsten


[1] https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm/issues

On Mon, Feb 07, 2022, at 17:41 (+0000), famubu at rawtext.club wrote:
> Hi. I had been experiencing something strange over the past few weeks.
> 
> If I got firefox running, after some time the computer will get totally
> stuck. Sometimes it happens within 5 minutes and sometimes it takes
> around 30 minutes, but it *always* happens while on hlwm.
> 
> Tried updating firefox version (now at 96.0 on Ubuntu 18.04) and
> clearing cache, cookie, etc but to no avail.
> 
> Interestingly, if am I am on xfce, this problem never shows up. I tried
> switching to xfce and have been on it for the past 4 days with firefox
> running, but there were no problems.
> 
> It seems that the problem happens only with hlwm.
> 
> Is it just me or have anyone had had some similar problem before?
> 
> Does anyone has any idea as to the reason behind this anomaly?
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