Wheelerof4te wrote:Dear Debian developers
Not sure this is the right channel to reach the developers. AFAIK, most of them hang out in the
mailing lists.
Wheelerof4te wrote:this has become a nightmare for me and I believe other Debian users. Crashes are near instant and almost guaranteed when it tries to load flash content (html) or heavy javascript.
I can't recreate what you are describing. Mozilla and especially Debian can't do anything about bugs in Flash, especially considering how Flash is a dying technology anyway. Javascript loads fine on my Iceweasel, both ESR and the current version from backports. However, the web is evolving quickly, so it could be that sites you are visiting use new features that the ESR version doesn't run well.
Quick solution 1: Don't use the ESR version. Use the current one from the
Mozilla Team Backports.
Quick solution 2: Don't browse Javascript heavy pages.
EDIT: Quick solution 3: Don't use the flashnonfree, use pepperflash.
Solution 4 (a bit more involving): Use NoScript and enable Javascript only when needed. A lot of the times, the scripts that squeeze your machine aren't actually the content, but rather the ads and other tracking tools (Facebook, Twitter) that are to blame. I've found out that when disabling those, web page loading just flies.
Solution 5: Don't count on Iceweasel becoming slimmer anytime soon. Change to
Pale Moon.
Wheelerof4te wrote:Worse yet, when I open the browser it crashes again since it loads the last page (usually the crashed html page). Will someone who has the knowledge try to fix this, or is fixing it as I type? Or will we have to wait for new ESR release of IW? Or it won't be fixed at all?
Sometimes I wonder if the crashes are related to the flawed security. Seeing as Debian is compromised since Jessie released with a mountain of RC bugs
What RC bugs? There probably were some, but I don't feel any of them on several desktops (Xfce, Gnome, LXDE with lots of packages installed). Maybe some evidence would shed more light on it?
Wheelerof4te wrote:But something else does not feel right, too. Linux kernel got tens of fixes by now, what for? Was it that bad when you released it? Or is it being tampered with?
The kernel gets security fixes. It doesn't necessarily mean it's being "tampered with". You'd have to give us more evidence than just your fear of conspiracy.