palemoon freeze at startup
Posted: 2017-09-16, 15:32
I've been running palemoon on 64bit linux mint xfce (currently 27.4.2). I've been keeping up with every update. Since around mid summer (so that's a few releases earlier) palemoon would freeze up in a middle of a session after I go back and forth between links or even simply scrolling up and down. When it does freeze up, it affects not just palemoon but also the whole screen -- I can move the cursor around, but I can no longer click the mouse, and xterm does not get activated when I move the mouse over (I set "focus over mouse") so I cannot kill palemoon. I do have dual monitor, and interesting enough the mouse/terminal all work on the monitor not running palemoon. Even so, the only way to restore the function of the frozen screen is to kill xfce4-session, resulting in an auto-logout (and kill all the jobs currently running) --- "kill -9 (id of palemoon)" kills the job but the frozen palemoon remains.
At first I thought that this is caused by bad scripts from sites, but last night I was able to reproduce this problem from scratch, as follows: I disabled all user scripts, restarted palemoon, and then used the touchpad to scroll up and down the screen. Within a few seconds palemoon would freeze up. Next, I moved
.moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon
to a temp directory and restart palemoon from scratch, and interesting enough, palemoon no longer freeze. Finally, when I move the original palemoon directory back, it freezes again.
I do not have this problem with chrome and firefox, so I doubt that this is a hardware/dual-monitor issue.
Question: What could cause this problem and how do I fix this? I'd be happy to submit debugging logs but I don't know how to generate them.
THANKS!
At first I thought that this is caused by bad scripts from sites, but last night I was able to reproduce this problem from scratch, as follows: I disabled all user scripts, restarted palemoon, and then used the touchpad to scroll up and down the screen. Within a few seconds palemoon would freeze up. Next, I moved
.moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon
to a temp directory and restart palemoon from scratch, and interesting enough, palemoon no longer freeze. Finally, when I move the original palemoon directory back, it freezes again.
I do not have this problem with chrome and firefox, so I doubt that this is a hardware/dual-monitor issue.
Question: What could cause this problem and how do I fix this? I'd be happy to submit debugging logs but I don't know how to generate them.
THANKS!