Hi!

Same here after disabling the compositor, no hangs or sudden deaths have
appeared. So something changed for better.

Best regards,
Hannu Vuolasaho

to 13. marrask. 2025 klo 13.12 Laurence Tratt <laurie@tratt.net> kirjoitti:

>
> I have now been running for two days with the XFCE's compositor turned off,
> and using `picom` as an alternative compositor. Firefox has not crashed
> once (instead of multiple times an hour). So that means the problem is not
> due to "any compositor" but rather "xfwm4's compositior".
>
> Although this means I have a decent workaround, I'm really not sure exactly
> what is at fault here: it could be any of xfwm4's compositor, xenocara /
> amdgpu, or Firefox. Or, maybe, they're all correct in isolation and there's
> just some sort of unfortunate interaction when they're all used together.
>
> Still, this might be useful for any other XFCE & Firefox users (and, based
> on Hannu's experience, perhaps some non-Firefox XFCE users too?).
>
>
> Laurie
>
>