Firefox Broken After "Upgrade" to lubuntu 16.04 From 14.04

[rebeltaz]

I'll forgo my usual "upgrade" rant. I had need to "upgrade" my lubuntu 14.04 system to 16.04 last night. Firefox, which had worked up until last night, now crashes with



ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 5486
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...


Safe mode does the same thing. I have removed the .mozilla directory. I have purged and re-installed firefox. Nothing works. Any idea?

[ian-weisser]

Firefox works fine on my 16.04 system.
Are there any other possible clues or symptoms?

Thank you for forgoing the rant.

[rebeltaz]

Firefox works fine on my 16.04 system.
Are there any other possible clues or symptoms?

Not that I can tell. Everything else [seems to] works just fine.


Thank you for forgoing the rant.
:-\" :mrgreen:

[mc4man]

Sounds like this bug though it's been fixed..
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1671079

[rebeltaz]

I've done a update/upgrade and it's still crashing. It does sound the same, but apparently, my system hasn't gotten the memo yet :)

The version I'm showing installed is 53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2.... not sure if that is newer or older. The first set of numbers is higher, but the second set is lower.

[vasa1]

...

The version I'm showing installed is 53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2.... not sure if that is newer or older. ...
53 is newer.


$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Version table:
53.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
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