NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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barbaz
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NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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Currently NoScript minimum supported Firefox version is 59.

I upgraded my primary systems to Xubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately for helping with NoScript support, Firefox versions below 91.x are no longer testable. All I can get out of 90.x and earlier is tab crashes (until I go all the way back to Firefox 52.9, but something that old is irrelevant here).

I do testing of old Firefox versions in VirtualBox VM. The old Firefox versions are the direct downloads from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ for linux-x86_64.

Anyone else on forum staff here use Ubuntu (or flavor) and finding that Firefox 59-90 only gives tab crashes on 22.04?

If these old Firefox versions work for you in 22.04, any ideas how I too can make them work?
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Re: NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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Do the crashes get logged (about:crashes), reported to Mozilla?
If so, anything the reports might point out?

Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13
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Re: NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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There are no crash reports listed in about:crashes.
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Re: NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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Found a workaround: set the environment variable MOZ_DISABLE_CONTENT_SANDBOX=1

Could that impact ability to test support issues?
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Re: NoScript, Ubuntu 22.04, and Firefox < 91

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Needed this information today and noticed this thread actually doesn't need to be staff-only. Moving to Web Tech.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
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