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Firerox Instantly crashes when playing any video.

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Running Fedora on a Samsung Chromebook 3 using MrChromebox's coreboot 4.14 Firmware

ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 14197 ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal... [Child 13910, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7ff1a7ce4f10 Could not set cubeb stream name.: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-93.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:367 Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. [Child 13910, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7ff1aa941000 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-93.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3980 Exiting due to channel error.

Running Fedora on a Samsung Chromebook 3 using MrChromebox's coreboot 4.14 Firmware ''ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 14197 ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal... [Child 13910, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7ff1a7ce4f10 Could not set cubeb stream name.: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-93.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:367 Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. [Child 13910, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7ff1aa941000 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-93.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3980 Exiting due to channel error.''

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Here are some crash reports, first one being a tab crash and the other a hard crash while trying to play Youtube videos.

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I Believe it has to do with audio, the crashes are not limited to video, but they also occur when playing any sort of audio.

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Make sure your ffmpeg and libav files are current. see screenshot

You should also download and run a copy of Firefox from a folder. You will have your distro version and mozilla version to compare when you have issues.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

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jonzn4SUSE said

Make sure your ffmpeg and libav files are current. see screenshot You should also download and run a copy of Firefox from a folder. You will have your distro version and mozilla version to compare when you have issues. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Done both, still crashes, either the tab or it does the whole browser.

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Modified by jonzn4SUSE