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Anyone notice that Firefox has become hella unstable recently? (startrek.website)

submitted 3 days ago by Steve@startrek.website to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I switched from chrome when ublock stopped working.

All was well for a while but in the past few weeks I’ve had increasing problems with Firefox not loading pages, and if I try the same url in chrome it loads no problem. This happens even with the VPN turned off.

Firefox also has like 3x as many processes as I have tabs open, and task manager fails to kill all of them.

Windows 11.

I could be blaming the wrong programs, who knows. Its getting painful.

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[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Have you installed add-ons other than ublock origin?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. External application launcher, Hide members-only video on youtube, Youtube nonstop, Webserial for firefox, Tampermonkey, Per-tab volume control.

I can see how some of these might break shit so I disabled all but ublock, will see if the situation improves.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

That's a lot, good to try without. I have only ublock.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

Might be a bug, so we can troubleshoot to try to figure it out.

If you visit about:processes, is there any website or extension taking up a lot of system resources?

In addition to that, you can try launching firefox in safe/troubleshooting mode. 3 bars in the top right > Help > Troubleshooting mode

This restarts firefox with all addons, extensions, and themes disabled.

For further troubleshooting, also try:

Go to about:profiles, and create and launch a new one. This is a more complete reset, since it also resets all settings, about:config options, and similar.

After creating a new profile, you can play around with rebuilding your current firefox config, adding extensions and changing settings.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

Nope

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Firefox is good for me on a lot of sites, but it doesn’t seem to like Lemmy as much as I do. So I use Safari for that (I’m on a Mac). And then I just keep using Safari because I really don’t hate it.

[–] Lordor@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe something you have changed a long time ago in about:config that does not work out with a recent update ? I don't know if it's possible

Or add-ons as previously mentioned

Or DNS over HTTPS configured in Firefox that does not work anymore for any reason

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 3 days ago

No problems whatsoever for me

[–] x_pikl_x@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

On the PC, it's almost unusable. Android, no problems.