Desktop Firefox help (new to linux)

Hi I have recently installed bazzite on a new (to me) computer with about 10 year old hardware. I am new to linux in general, I am encountering issues using firefox where it is crashing several times a day. I am trying figure out whether it is due to:

Hardware compatibility with bazzite
General Hardware problem
General Linux problem

but I am too inexperienced to figure it out myself. Some points below based on my google search

Firefox is installed from the discover store.
No extensions have been installed on Firefox.
Crashes are happening on well supported sites (youtube, google sheets, others)
I haven't messed with anything advanced on the operating system e.g. rpm-ostree layering

Any help in troubleshooting this will be much appreciated.

HikariKnight•1/16/25, 7:38 AM

This is a gaming system. The older the hardware the worse compatibility.
Quadruple so for any machine with Nvidia anything and our requirements are clear on that in the download page.

If you installed it on a pure Intel (laptop) machine then it will work fine as long as the GPU supports hardware decoding. But with 10+ year old hardware you're really threading the line.

Also you need to have installed on an SSD, a HDD or SSHD is unsupported as you will run into issues.

What would help a bit is giving us more info than "10 year old hardware"

cksiuOP•1/16/25, 7:42 AM

its a refurbished optiplex 7040 with i5 6500, i put in an RX 550, it is has a 512 GB storage via nvme. Is there like a command I should run to get more information if needed?

cksiuOP•1/16/25, 7:42 AM

Thanks for the quick response btw

HikariKnight•1/16/25, 7:50 AM

That should be compatible. I would suggest just trying to run the Firefox flatpak from terminal and see if it says anything when crashing

It's something something.
You can find the command by right clicking the Firefox shortcut and going to properties if you went with kde as the desktop environment.
I'm not at my PC so I can't get the command for you

wolfyreload•1/16/25, 8:48 AM

It should be and then hopefully you'll be able to see when/why it crashes