There’s three main things I’ve noticed. These things only started happening after Mozilla’s change in leadership. While they have announced more features since then, I feel like the quality control has gone down a bit.
- Even with the sidebar disabled, the sidebar will show on the side of the screen for half a second after launching Firefox
- Sometimes, the “x” buttons on tabs will stop working. I have to middle-click the window to close it or close that window and open a new one
- The AI popup often gets in the way when selecting text. I think it would be nicer to have it show up in the right click menu after selecting text. I disabled the AI so it won’t show up since I never really used it anyways.
If I’m not mistaken, the second problem is linux only and they are working on a fix for a while now, it should be fixed in 141. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1955112
Tbh, I don’t use actual Firefox often any more it’s usually forks, and I’m not hyper worried about updating them as soon as a new version rolls out, I’m fine waiting a few weeks.
But I have noticed the sidebar thing on my laptop. Not sure which version it’s on, but it can’t have been much more than two weeks since I updated Firefox on it, since that’s when I did a version update to mint. Maybe three weeks at most.
You need to untick show sidebar in settings.
Much appreciated!
What’re you on about? It started getting buggy from 3.0 onwards.
Still the best browser.
- You need to disabled the sidebar in settings. Settings > General > Browser layout > Untick show sidebar.
Havent notice for question 2 and i disabled AI in firefox.
When the second issue happens, does the reload button & address bar also no longer work? Then I have the same issue, it’s pretty annoying. It can be fixed by pulling the tab out into a separate window & merging it back into the previous one, but still very annoying.
I believe some of the other toolbar buttons also stop working.
These sound like Spyware problems, not Firefox. I’m using FF for years on Linux and the browser has never been better and faster. Not a single of these problems!
Since 112ish, I’ve had a bug where it keeps reloading rapidly. Forcing Xwayland makes it a little bit better but it is far from completely fixed
Welcome to the enshittification of firefox.