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Firefox shows only blank pages - even about:config is just white


From one day to another Firefox shows only blank white pages: enter image description here

I'v tried

Nothing was working. Firefox even shows no error messages. Chromium still worked as expected.


Solution

  • 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:

    enter image description here