• ayaya@lemdro.id
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    10 months ago

    For me Firefox crashes all the time in normal use. I am talking minimum twice a day. It also has this weird problem where it will pin one thread to 100% and lock up the whole browser when downloading files. I also had to disable video hardware acceleration or else Twitch crashes every 5-10 minutes but luckily my CPU is so strong that it’s not too big of a deal to do software decoding.

    I still use it out of principle but it has been a way worse experience than Chromium ever was for me.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah…I’m gonna say you have something that isn’t playing well with Firefox. Extensions, hardware…. I’ve been using Firefox for years now across multiple OS’s and hardware and I’ve never had anything like this happen to me

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        10 months ago

        I have privacy badger, ublock, dark reader, tab session manager, bitwarden, and grease monkey(that is used to tweak hacker News).

        I guess I could try to turn off ublock and privacy badger to see if that fixes anything, but the other extensions seem way less invasive and less likely to be the culprit.

        But browsing without ublock seems miserable.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, more often than not Ublock or others ad blocks are the culprit for me.

          And it’s not immediately obvious that such is the case when it happens.

          Good luck

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      10 months ago

      what os/hardware? I too never have an issue but im talking a pc. Is your experience with android?

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        10 months ago

        I am talking about on desktop but actually the Android version of Firefox was such a laggy buggy mess I switched to Brave on mobile.

        On my desktop I use Arch btw with a 7950X and a 6900 XT. Honestly after using it for over a year I kind of hate it. I am so fed up with how many small annoying problems it has. Someone else mentioned Thorium in this thread and I might give that a try.

        If Firefox works great for you that’s awesome but it is BY FAR the buggiest piece of software on my entire computer.

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          10 months ago

          I have different hardware, but I am running arch with firefox daily. I have had maybe 2 freezes in the last two years. Other than that it works as I would expect. Are you keeping your system updated?