Firefox freezes on startup on Wayland (but works with --kiosk or --preferences)

Problem statement I ran into a very confusing Firefox issue on Linux (Wayland): firefox → freezes / not responding firefox --kiosk → ✅ works firefox --preferences → ✅ works Creating a new tab or popup → ❌ freezes again Disabling all extensions → ❌ still freezes Creating a new Firefox profile → ✅ works Deleting prefs.js → ✅ fixes it At first glance this looks like: an extension bug GPU / cache corruption session restore issue But none of those were the real cause. ...

January 18, 2026 · 3 min · 463 words · Akhil Jalagam

How to set up Reverse Proxy in Apache/httpd

Install and enable apache2 proxy modules proxies all requests (“/”) to a single backend: to point to the reverse proxy, instead of back to itself, the ProxyPassReverse directive is most often required: Only specific URIs can be proxied Example ServerName example.net Documentroot /var/www/html/ ProxyPass “/” “http://www.example.com/" ProxyPassReverse “/” “http://www.example.com/" ...

September 2, 2019 · 1 min · 50 words · Akhil Jalagam