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Honestly, I've just about had enough (lemmy.zip)
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I'm doing my best to continue using Firefox, but it's becoming incredibly annoying, and I'm seriously at my wit's end and just about to give up on it permanently.

I've noticed during video calls it causes my computer to completely freeze up and require a reboot sometimes.

And on my phone, sometimes when I'm reading, it will just make my screen completely stop responding to me and I have to force reboot my phone in order to fix it.

I know that Gecko is the only other web engine option to fight Chromium's Blink, but I'm seriously just about fed up enough with Firefox to say fuck it.

Servo or ladybird may be the only real hope left.

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[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Android is the one that's freezing up my screen entirely and Linux is the one that I'm having video call issues with.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

What phone do you have? And are you running anything like an anti virus?

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Oneplus nord n200 5g, and no. I do use a private DNS system wide from control D that blocks out known ads and malware, but nothing else on the device is affected.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 8 hours ago

Okay, that's the problem. 4GB of RAM isn't enough for modern Android. I know because it's what I have on my tablet and it's bullshit, if I use certain apps, others in the background are force closed, etc. All I can say is that with some of the changes taking place with the switch to Jetpack Compose, Firefox is getting better in terms of a smaller memory footprint, but that's little consolation for you now and your urgent/present needs.

BTW, well done for using a private DNS for stopping the problem at the root.

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