All tabs keep crashing

[Delicious-Bacon]

Captchas

• [x] I have read the instructions.
• [x] I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates.
• [x] I am not filing an enhancement request.
• [x] I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.
• [x] I have checked that this issue can be reproduced once I removed all my Mods and Custom CSS.

What happened?

Just take a look at #6595

That was closed for no reason. And read a comment that it also happens on Linux too. Zen does not work at all anymore.

Also note: OPENING BROWSER CONSOLE CAUSES INSTANT CRASH. This might be related, because console used to work before.

Version

1.11.1b

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Linux (AppImage)

What component is this issue related to?

Other

Relevant log output if applicable

$ coredumpctl dump
           PID: 17508 (Privileged Cont)
           UID: 1000 (ses)
           GID: 1000 (ses)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Sat 2025-04-05 19:22:43 CEST (14s ago)
  Command Line: /home/ses/Programs/zen_browser/zen -contentproc -isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0 -prefsLen 47407 -prefMapHandle 1 -prefMapSize 273339 -jsInitHandle 2 -jsInitLen 247540 -parentBuildID 20250405021635 -sandboxReporter 3 -chrootClient 4 -ipcHandle 5 -initialChannelId {5a36c98c-60d0-4517-8ec7-7e85ab86a605} -parentPid 16310 -greomni /home/ses/Programs/zen_browser/omni.ja -appomni /home/ses/Programs/zen_browser/browser/omni.ja -appDir /home/ses/Programs/zen_browser/browser 45 tab
    Executable: /home/ses/Programs/zen_browser/zen
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-1.scope
          Unit: session-1.scope
         Slice: user-1000.slice
       Session: 1
     Owner UID: 1000 (ses)
       Boot ID: 89c4a99774674c9681b6806d9e4b2773
    Machine ID: 3546656c67e04b85ab78641d10077f82
      Hostname: rocky
       Storage: none
       Message: Process 17508 (Privileged Cont) of user 1000 dumped core.
Coredump entry has no core attached (neither internally in the journal nor externally on disk).

[mr-cheffy]

Could you please try in a new profile?

[Delicious-Bacon]

Could you please try in a new profile?

Tried it. Doesn't work, unfortunately.

[InterstellarOne]

Also happening for me on Fedora Linux. it stopped for a while, and then I just updated today and it started happening again.

[InterstellarOne]

They often seem to crash seconds after I go to another tab.

[braccae]

Have you tried checking for an update? I'm on fedora silverblue and whenever zen updates in the background, all the tabs will crash instantly until I restart it. there's no update indicator. or even a notification letting me know.

[Delicious-Bacon]

Have you tried checking for an update? I'm on fedora silverblue and whenever zen updates in the background, all the tabs will crash instantly until I restart it. there's no update indicator. or even a notification letting me know.

You can change the way your browser updates in Settings, under the "Zen Updates": Check for updates but let you choose to install them

That is, if that works how it says it should. 😅

But my browser never works, with or without the update.

[braccae]

Yeah, I don't have any header in my setting pages for updates at all. It might be because I'm using the flatpak. The closest thing is the Zen Mods updates. The flatpak itself never updates though, from what I glanced from my system monitor, it's downloading the .mar files and updating that way.

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi, @Delicious-Bacon. I'm Dosu, and I'm helping the desktop team manage their backlog. I'm marking this issue as stale.

Issue Summary:

• Persistent crash in Zen browser on Linux when opening the console.
• Issue confirmed by another user on Fedora Linux, especially after tab switching.
• Suggested solutions like using a new profile and checking for updates did not resolve the issue.
• Flatpak version's lack of update notifications might contribute to the problem.

Next Steps:

• Please let me know if this issue is still relevant to the latest version of the desktop repository by commenting here.
• If there is no further activity, this issue will be automatically closed in 7 days.

Thank you for your understanding and contribution!

[Delicious-Bacon]

The issue is still relevant. I also tried it on other operating systems and they eventually start crashing the tabs too. Since I lost the session so many times, I use an extension to save my sessions, and pin all of my tabs that I want to see when I open Zen the next time.

[nneto]

I came to look if someone already posted about it. Every once in a while a tab crashes and "restore" doesn't work, new tabs don't open they just crash too and it takes a close-and-reopening of the browser for it to work again. Worse still, after reopening the browser, the tabs that crashed now are just "new tabs". One day I was on yt and I opened a a series of tabs with middle-click then realized they all didn't open, just crashed. I close the browser, reopen it, and lost the videos, all tabs just blank.

[zQueal]

Just started seeing this in 1.13.1b after upgrading. It's only select tabs, but it's completely random... Recent update makes Google Drive completely unusable.

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi, @Delicious-Bacon. I'm Dosu, and I'm helping the desktop team manage their backlog. I'm marking this issue as stale.

Issue Summary:

• Persistent crashes in Zen browser on Linux, especially when opening the console.
• Issue confirmed by other users on Fedora Linux, occurring after tab switching or updates.
• Suggested solutions like new profiles and updates have not resolved the problem.
• Lack of update notifications in Flatpak version may contribute to the issue.
• Remains unresolved, affecting multiple users and versions, including 1.13.1b update.

Next Steps:

• Please confirm if the issue is still relevant to the latest version of the desktop repository by commenting here.
• If no updates are provided, the issue will be automatically closed in 7 days.

Thank you for your understanding and contribution!

[nneto]

Hi, @Delicious-Bacon. I'm Dosu, and I'm helping the desktop team manage their backlog. I'm marking this issue as stale.

Issue Summary:

• Persistent crashes in Zen browser on Linux, especially when opening the console.
• Issue confirmed by other users on Fedora Linux, occurring after tab switching or updates.
• Suggested solutions like new profiles and updates have not resolved the problem.
• Lack of update notifications in Flatpak version may contribute to the issue.
• Remains unresolved, affecting multiple users and versions, including 1.13.1b update.

Next Steps:

• Please confirm if the issue is still relevant to the latest version of the desktop repository by commenting here.
• If no updates are provided, the issue will be automatically closed in 7 days.

Thank you for your understanding and contribution!

it keeps happening

[LukaszPiatkowski27]

still happens on the latest release

[Gamoish]

man this was annoying i was trying to study in the morning and the tabs just kept crashing the gdrive and even chat gpt and other tabs keep crashing even when you reopen it . still happens on the latest version

[Gamoish]