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submitted 3 weeks ago by ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Using Fennec F-Droid, some pages the progress bar hits 25% and then hangs for an amount of time between a couple minutes to forever. Usually the same page will always hang around the same time, but trying hours or days later it might work. Sometimes the page loads after a couple minutes, but if it doesn't, I can come back hours later and the progress bar is still at 25% for that tab. Killing the app doesn't seem to make a difference. I do use Ublock origin and one other extension to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com. Haven't started disabling extensions yet, I wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing this on Android.

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[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A know issue, seems like having almost any extension enabled can cause this issue. A temp fix is to disable and re enable the extensions. https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/134

No fix yet unfortunately

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Great find!

There's also a bug tracking this at Mozilla, which definitely needs more info.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1986096

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Known issue, read F-Droid's latest blogpost for workarounds until they fix it.

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Finally made the switch to Ironfox which replaces Mull as a even more privacy friendly firefox fork on android. Ironfox doesn't have that problem currently.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I did too! Great experience so far, feels super snappy (though I did remove some extensions I was no longer using tbf)

[-] jakemehoff11@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've been having the same problem, and it seems to be some kind of https resolution thing. I thought maybe it was a proxy or VPN issue, but I disabled those and rebooted and it was still the same.

What fixes it for me is to load literally any page(I use duckduckgo) on the built in browser on Lineage and then go back to Fennec and it runs like normal until it doesn't again. I'm hoping an update comes soon.

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, so I'm not the only one! If I hit "quit" instead of just swiping the window away when I'm done, the next time I open Fennec it doesn't hang, but I usually forget to do this. I also have it set to delete everything (except, I think, cookies) on "quit."

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly I'm a tab hoarder so I never hit Quit :(

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

In my case once a tab fails to load it will generally never load no matter how many times I reload the tan. I can close that tab and paste the same URL into a different tab and it works fine.

[-] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes and there is an issue started on the gitlab for Fennec (which ironically I can't pull up right now to give you the link because it's hanging due to this bug).

There is a workaround that works for me, go to your settings within Fennec and turn on "Delete browsing data on quit" and only turn on the "cached images and files" so you don't lose saved logins and history. This will enable an "exit" option in the menu which fully closes the app and usually fixes the issue.

[-] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

It seems that, with extensions enabled, I can shut off wifi, forcing it to use mobile data, and that works for me.

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