Firefox and Thunderbird crash on Linux Lite 3.2

[drrdf]

Hi Trinidad: thanks for your reply. Yes I have run the updates, but the problem still persists. These are both clean installations, as the only OS, so no residual Firefox add ons can be responsible, because any would have been deleted upon installation with new formatting. An interesting thing is that I am also running Linux lite on two 64 bit PCs, and on those there is no such problem with Firefox and Thunderbird, so the problem is clearly something within the 32 bit version of Linux lite only. As I have pointed out this problem is also present in other recently released Linux OSs, but not in Ubuntu 16.04, which I also tried installing on these same PCs, although I do not like it as an OS. I have tried deleting Flash as some have suggested, but that does not solve it all.

As you say, you have not had any crashes on intel-based systems, so it makes me think that this problem only exists on AMD-CPU-based systems.

[Artim]

I had the same issue, to a lesser degree.  Seamonkey (formerly a Mozilla project, now independent) does what FF and TB do, only with thousands fewer lines of code.  It would be very familiar to users of FF and TB, but maybe trouble-free for you.

[drrdf]

Hi RandomBoy: I do not use SeaMonkey so have not experienced any problems with that. However there are a number of items posted in various places on the Internet and on other OS forums, which suggest that this problem could be due to the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird being included in the distributed OSs - i.e. the 64-bit versions instead of the 32-bit versions.  This would make sense from my observations and is possibly because Firefox and Thunderbird (F & T) are carried over into Linux lite from Ubuntu and at the time the 32-bit version of Linux lite 3.8 was complied Ubuntu had the wrong versions of Firefox and Thunderbird within it; since then Ubuntu have corrected their error, and now have the correct 32-bit versions of F & T included, which is why F & T run properly in the newest release of Ubuntu, but Linux lite have not corrected this error?

This would also explain why this problem does not exist in the 3.8 64-bit version of Linux lite. The solution it seems is to delete the present wrong versions of F & T in 32-bit Linux lite and then install the proper 32-bit versions of F & T direct from the Mozilla site.