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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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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 1 day ago

If everyone else says it works fine and it's just you, well, I wonder what's wrong with your system. Firefox is just a symptom. It could just be Firefox. It could be any number of other things wrong. For me a great example is when webgl fails I blamed Firefox. Turns out I have Nvidia drivers broken and it failed to enable hardware acceleration. A system locking up because of a rogue all? I smell something else wrong.

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

Chromium works fine on the same system

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

I've never encountered any of these issues with Firefox on Android and Windows.

[-] 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 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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 12 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.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

What's your system and phone and what are they operating on? This sounds less like a Firefox issue and more like a system issue.

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

Desktop is Linux Mint Debian and phone is Android 15. I know for a fact chromium works and does not freeze up my system on LMDE.

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

What is your desktop CPU and RAM and your phones SoC?

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

Desktop is intel, phone is snapdragon. Firefox is the only issue on both.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I feel you. I have similar issues.

I've ALWAYS been a loyal Firefox user pretty much since it released but it's just unusable for some things now. I never used Chrome and I'd like to avoid it but it's getting difficult.

I luckily have Graphene on my phone so I use Vanadium, which I'm trusting is as solid as people say, but on my Linux desktop I'm kinda shit out of luck. I still mostly use Librewolf but issues persist. I ended up mostly using Chromium but people said that wasn't good so I have started using Brave since I was told that was better but I'm not particularly happy with it and I'm not convinced it's much safer than Chromium, which I never considered particularly safe anyway. No real options, I guess.

[-] sym@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

The only issue I've come across is with the Android version. When I'm typing in the address bar, Firefox Suggest shows the page I've previously visited, but as I continue typing it disappears, then I keep typing, it comes back again, etc. So if I stop typing on the wrong letter to click the link, it's no longer there.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

Librewolf

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

First of all, isn't that just a Firefox fork? I would think it would have the same problems. Although it may be better. For second, isn't it only on desktop? It wouldn't solve my phone problem.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, yes, phone. I believe at their website, they have recommendations for phone.

It's not "just" a Firefox fork. They've completely broken with Firefox, afaik, over privacy and monetization. But you can still donate, if you have the means and are inclined. They're wholly deserving, imo.

[-] rammjet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Orion uses WebKit and allows Firefox and Chrome extensions.

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Funny thing, I had switched off from firefox to zen for like.. 7 months and it was the best browsing experience, but then I accidentally broke a thing when messing around with the zen mods, and had to reinstall, and when I did it turns out I had an old version, and the new one was so shit I came back crawling to firefox

Anyhow :3.. im also kinda on a hunt for a browser that fits my needs that isn't chromium based, but nothing I found particularly had the stuff I'd want over firefox, so im just using it cause it's my "fine enough" fallback option

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