Gah, Your Tab Just Crashed Message In Firefox
Gema Shisila
I tried the solutions suggested in other similar forum posts like >safemode (tabs still crashed)>driver update (my drivers are up to date as far i can tell)>deleting cache and reinstalling firefox (tabs crash). I took a backup of my bookmarks and extensions as suggeated in another forum post.> one youtube video ( _po) suggested toggling media.cubeb.sandbox in the config section. The tabs started loading after that but it wasnt that useful as i wasnt able to get any videos to play in the browser.
I had to get back to work as fast as i could so i just restored an old snapshot using timeshift back to a time i knew everything worked as expected. I do have some suspicions about who/what the culprit could be but dont have the time to go bug hunting now unfortunately. I will try to make a more detailed report some other time. For now, Mozilla Firefox seems to be working great. Thank you very much for your time and help :-)
Did you do the big glibc update yet? For me it was a 2000+ package update.Also try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run firefox-bin in the folder and see if you have the same issue. -US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
Update: i read up a bit more about glibc and it seems to be a really critical and delicate package. I really dont want to mess with it lest i inevitably break it. I am not smart enough to fix something like that. Any other solution wpuld be greatly appreciated. The browsers were working fine until yesterday and i havent updated or installed anything recently other than some work software but i dont have any reason to believe that they will affect browser behavior.
Only browser thats working properly now is text based lynx browser and firefox woth limited functionality after using this solution ( _po). I am not able to playback videos, attend videocall meetings or even browse smoothly. I even installed Microsoft edge (lmao) to see if that works but it seems to have the same unresponsive tabs problem.
I do remember having that issue last year and I can't recall exactly, but I do think it was glibc related.What version of Mint are you running?Can you create a live usb using the current Mint iso and boot to it as a test? -installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I'm getting this odd error with the standard install of FF since the last few updates every time I try to load FF (even starting up with a blank page) or open a new tab.Tried a fresh profile .. same result.Completely uninstalled FF & deleted the existing profile, then installed again ... ditto.Ran in FF safe mode .. ditto.Disabled hardware acceleration .. ditto.Scanned for nasties (ESET) .. nothing.Installed the latest portable version .. worked fine.Copied the old profile into the portable version .. worked fine.So what could be causing the installed version to give the 'Gah ..' error, both on starting up FF & opening a new tab, but not affect the same FF portable (same version)? The system is an ASUS laptop Win7Pro 32-bit. It's my wife's pc and she uses IE (gasp), so it's not a life or death situation. I'll use FF portable & update now & then unless there's a fix???One final observation - the first time FF is run after an update or a fresh install, it oddly works then, but shut FF down & restart it .. and all I get is "Gah.." - Gah indeed!
Normally the new feature is an advantage. The odd Gah message indicate that a tab has crashed but the browser itself should continue working as normal. I do not understand how you get such a crash from a blank tab.
Pre release versions of Firefox have easier methods of turning this feature off or adjusting its settings but for now: Disable multi-process tabs in Firefox by setting the related prefs to false on the about:config page.
The tab crashes should be generating crash reports, can you try in Firefox's safe mode and with a blank startup tab and when it crashes visit about:crashes to obtain the CrashID for that tab crash and paste that crash ID in to your reply please.
Even after Firefox has been installed and used does the crashing stop the first time you use Firefox in a new additional Firefox profile ?If so that indicates your wife's issue is due to some problem in the profile. Possibly comparing a new profile with a profile after closing down and restarting may throw some light on what is happening.
Thanks for the reply .. it seems to have fixed it. The setting "browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2" was set to true .. toggling it & restarting and FF is back to normal on repeated FF restarts. I even restored the old profile (and had to toggle the above setting off again) and that worked fine as well. So at least on that pc the multi-process feature causes FF to be essentially non-functional.
Prior to the fix opening FF resulting in a single tab with the Gah error. This was the case with both the original profile and also a brand new clean profile (I removed the original profile when I reinstalled FF). Opening another tab gave a blank tab but trying to go to any page (or even a local html file) gave the gah error.
Re different profiles .. when it updated to the troublesome version with the original profile it gad'd on the next (and all subsequent) sessions after the successful update. After the next FF update it worked for the 1st session and then just Gah. I uninstalled and copied the old profile to a temp folder, then deleted the ..\users\..\firefox\ folder, not just the profile, but the entire mozilla folder, then reinstalled FF, so a completely new install & profile. Ran FF .. worked fine. Closed, ran again and it Gah'd. So with a clean profile, opening, visiting google, closing and re-running FF that was enough to corrupt something. Since the SAME profile worked fine with the latest portable version (just copied the entire contents of the original profile folder into the portable profile folder), that seems to suggest the original profile was not corrupted but the problem lies elsewhere.
Most likely the multi-process setting is clashing with something else on the pc .. but what would be the million $ question & a major pain to work out. No idea if it's an OS setting or another programme.
One more question .. any idea if future FF updates will toggle the b.t.r.a. setting back to true or will the false setting persist? FF updates have in the past sometimes changed non-standard config settings back to the default, othertimes not.
I was searching for a browser that can take advantage of my 144Hz monitor and run smoothly. Safari works only 72 Hz and chrome initially runs at 144Hz but gradually it becomes choppy after using it for 10 minutes.
But here is the problem I am facing with Firefox. After 30 to 40 minutes of use, my whole laptop froze. When I checked the Activity Monitor it shows that "FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content" is taking 10+ Gbs of memory.
Then I closed Firefox, everything goes back to normal. Then I opened Firefox again and closed all the tabs and put my MacBook to sleep. When I opened my MacBook, the laptop is already struggling to do anything. There was no tap opened and even in the laptop sleep mode"FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content" is gradually taking 12+ Gbs of memory.
Read through this... experiencing the same thing on my 2012 Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM. When I killed the offending CP process, it crashed my LinkedIn Tab only ( ). Lots in this typically and different types of content, but yeah...
using activity monitor, click on the firefoxCP isolated web content hogging memory and then the x. the offending tab in my case was hootsuite. told me "Gah. Your tab just crashed." It's not firefox but what is in the open tabs......
" It's not firefox but what is in the open tabs"--Not in my case! Even when I close all tabs but two belonging to blogs I like, which never used to cause any problems, it is still sucking up incredible amounts of memory.
I came to this thread because I was looking at my activity monitor and saw that there were 13 instances of "FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content" open. I have a Mac Studio with 128 GB of Memory and the Apple M1 Ultra Chip. I also have the Apple Studio Display and 2 additional 27 in Samsung monitors.
Currently I have 10 tabs open and Firefox is using about 7.5 GB of memory. I was shocked. I also have Safari open with 13 tabs and it is only consuming less than 1 GB of memory. I am not having any issues like you describe but it seems to me that you should not have the issues with Safari that you are having. Could this be a graphics card issue?
I just had this same issue. After reading some of the replies here, I realized I had TWO Firefox tabs open with two different Amazon products I was keeping an eye on. I closed those two tabs and the CPU fan of the 2017 MBP almost instantly started to calm down and the machine resumed its usually snappy response times.
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