Firefox bug

[Dave99]

Hi all

I'm sure that some/most of you may already be aware of this bug/problem, but I only came across it today when I tried to launch Firefox from a Bash script, I get:

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(process:5498): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_net_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size = 0' failed

I'm using Desktop Edition 3.0 with Firefox ESR 24.3.0

Firefox does start and seems stable (so far) but some users of other distros complain of the same thing and an unstable browser:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671

and here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117

Of course one can suppress the error message with 2>/dev/null but is it wise to do so?

I also ran pstree after starting Firefox and I got

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- firefox ---18*[{firefox}]

and running pstree -p

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|
|
|- firefox (9867) -+-{firefox}(9871)
|                         |-{firefox}(9880)
|                         then another 15 lines with different numbers in parentheses)
                           |-{firefox}(9924)

Has anyone else experienced this with newer (or same) versions of FF and desktop?
Any one experienced crashed or "stuck" Firefox?
Any feedback greatly appreciated.

Dave.

EDIT:

Apologies if this is in the wrong section but I didn't want to put it in the bugs section as it's not a direct Porteus bug.

[Bogomips]

Hi

Using PaleMoon always get

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(process:2073): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

Got the same on Mint with FF. This is well documented message. See Launchpad.

[Dave99]

Hi Bogomips and thanks for the feedback.

Other than the error message, is the browser stable?

Got the same on Mint with FF. This is well documented message. See Launchpad.

Certainly seems that way even though I only discovered it today.
Some users from bugzilla seem to think that it may also be causing browser crashes after some time which worries me
as I have a few deployed at several companies.

Dave.

[Bogomips]

Have had a lot of hassle with FF, so switched to PaleMoon, also from Mozilla stable, which is proving far more stable (p t p ) than any other I've used so far.

If you're feeling up to it, look at PaleMoon prerequisites, and if satisfied see my tut on PaleMoon.

[Dave99]

Thank you Bogomips.
Looking at the sourceforge page right now.

Dave.