Companion install problem + FF 59.0.2 64bits crashes on Ubuntu 17.10 about vdhcoapp HOT 5 CLOSED

UPDATE:
I tried again to download the videos one after the other:

• First video, I did the download while the video was playing => OK
• Second video, I did the download with the video paused => FF crashed
  I'm still not sure if the problem is from video2 or with paused/unpaused videos

from vdhcoapp.

We recommend using dpkg -i net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.1.3-1_amd64.deb, not dpkg -x ....

The VDH coapp is unlikely to be the direct cause of the Firefox crash (otherwise it's a big bad bug in Firefox, but i haven't heard about such reports). Most of the times, Firefox crashes are due to the browser trying to write somewhere on the disk and the system fails to do so in a bad way (quite often a disk/mounted-filesystem issue) causing the main app to terminate without proper error handling.

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Hi, Thanks for the quick reply.

FYI, I tried with second video only, while playing it. It worked until 95% when it crashed at ~35% when paused, but then it crashed also :{

Sorry, typing error, I indeed used dpkg -i not dpkg -x...

VDH is supposed to write on ~/dwhelper, which is local and where I have 148GB free...

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The vdh coapp was developed and tested on Ubuntu 16.04 (latest ESR), i cannot tell why you get this error on 17.10, i haven't heard of it before. Very soon, a new ESR will be available (18.04) and the procedure will be rechecked and fixed where required. Hopefully, this will solve the 17.10 issue.

It's important to know if the downloads are made by the coapp or the browser: if it's a "complex" download (YouTube, DASH, HLS, ...), this is done by the coapp (due to new limited Firefox Quantum download capabilities), if it's "simple" (1 URL to 1 File) you are asked for browser or coapp (you can change this from the VDH settings). If it is using the coapp, even if there is a crash of the app, it should be on the coapp not Firefox.

Note you may have sector errors on the local disk, and if you are downloading using the browser, this may cause the crash.

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Are you having the same problem with vdhcoapp 1.2.1 ?

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