From one day to another Firefox shows only blank white pages:
I'v tried
--safe-mode
--ProfileManager
and creating a new profile~/.mozilla
sudo apt purge firefox && sudo apt install firefox
Nothing was working. Firefox even shows no error messages. Chromium still worked as expected.
When starting Firefox with strace
I noticed by accident a library called libAppProtection.so
. It is located at /usr/local/lib/AppProtection/
:
$ ls /usr/local/lib/AppProtection/ -lah
total 188K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 23 17:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Jan 1 08:24 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Feb 23 17:35 libAppProtection.so -> /usr/local/lib/AppProtection /libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 175K Jan 1 08:24 libAppProtection.so.1.6.7.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Jan 1 08:24 .XInputEventIDs
$
After renaming the folder I got a lot of error messages - on every command I execute, even in the shell - but Firefox worked again as expected.
It turned out that libAppProtection.so
was part of the Citrix Workspace App SDK 2101 which I installed some days ago. It needs a restart of Firefox to make problems. So I removed the current installation with
$ sudo apt purge icaclient
[...]
$
and downloaded the workspace app and installed it without the app protection: