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[SOLVED] Firefox-esr from universe causes tabs with media to crash

Actually, subj. When I try to watch a youtube video or open another tab with media content, it crashes (see screenshot). There is no such an issue neither with firefox-esr-bin from AUR, nor with firefox-esr from other distros (I tried Void, Debian and Devuan).

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in safe mode and with new clean profil crash too?

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This has been a known bug on firefox-esr for the past few releases. You can apparently work around it by setting security.sandbox.content.level to 1. However, I do see that 78.11.0 release recently came out (the AUR package hasn't updated yet) so maybe that will fix this bug.

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Quote from: Dudemanguy – on
This has been a known bug on firefox-esr for the past few releases. You can apparently work around it by setting security.sandbox.content.level to 1. However, I do see that 78.11.0 release recently came out (the AUR package hasn't updated yet) so maybe that will fix this bug.
Okay. I just wonder why this bug is present only in the version from universe, but not in other, despite the fact I use the same config everywhere. I'd rather stick with AUR version of firefox-esr, which works with that parameter set to 4 by default.

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Quote from: VictorBrand – on
Okay. I just wonder why this bug is present only in the version from universe, but not in other, despite the fact I use the same config everywhere. I'd rather stick with AUR version of firefox-esr, which works with that parameter set to 4 by default.

firefox-esr from AUR has this exact bug. The package in universe is literally just that exact PKGBUILD but built in the universe repo. Now perhaps the bin version in AUR (firefox-esr-bin; note that this is different because it is a binary that comes directly from Mozilla) does not but it is (as of yesterday) on a different version so like I said maybe it finally got fixed there.

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Quote from: Dudemanguy – on
firefox-esr from AUR has this exact bug. The package in universe is literally just that exact PKGBUILD but built in the universe repo. Now perhaps the bin version in AUR (firefox-esr-bin; note that this is different because it is a binary that comes directly from Mozilla) does not but it is (as of yesterday) on a different version so like I said maybe it finally got fixed there.
Strangely enough, I didn't experience this bug on firefox-esr version 78.0.10 from AUR. Neither of other versions I worked with had this issue. I've just installed ff-esr 78.0.11 from AUR, it works fine. We'll see what will be when the version from universe is updated. I'll have a look and report back.

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I've tested new firefox-esr 78.11 from universe. The bug seems to be gone.