[TriLUG] Strange lockups on Fedora

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

FF seems to come and go with bugs. Lately I've had to re-start it to get good 
performance. Sometimes I just give up and switch to Chrome.

FF developers seem to be in constant "beta mode."

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On 01/26/2018 12:19 PM, Dwain Sims via TriLUG wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Strange lockups on Fedora
>> Yes, I’ve seen this happen with the New Firefox as well on F27.  Either
>> updates to FF or updates to F27 fixed it for me.
>> Matt P.
>
> I have seen this same behavior with the  "Web Content" process and the
> whole lockup business.  Can happen out of the blue, but more likely over
> the course of time.  It behaves like FF is leaking memory badly, and at
> some point it gushes out.
>
> I was a little concerned that this was a hardware issue, but you folks
> seeing it as well gives me more confidence that this is a software bug.
>
> I upgraded Mint from 18.1 to 18.3, and the incidents of this happening have
> diminished greatly, but not totally.  (I think I have had one lockup since
> the upgrade.)
>
> In one case I was able to kill FF when it started to go off the rails and
> that righted the ship, so to speak.
>
> Maybe what I should do is stick with Chrome and Opera and see if this goes
> away completely.
>
> Dwain