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.
like others said, this is probably just a system issue
I haven’t had that experience at all, and I use it macOS at work, Linux at home, and my Pixel 8 everywhere else. I did have a few issues on my old phone when lots of tabs were open, and I attributed it to running out of RAM.
Could you perhaps be low on RAM? If Firefox is your main, Chromium could work better in a one-off situation if it only has one or two tabs open.
Try restarting Firefox the next time it happens and see if it recurs when fresh. If it works fine after a restart, you’re probably running out of RAM.
I generally only keep one tab open at a time at max 2. I’m not one of those people who has a million different tabs open. Because I hate clutter.
Hmm, I tend to have 100+ on desktop and 10+ on my phone, and I haven’t seen anything similar to what you mentioned.
Do you have a million addons or something?
Nope, ublock origin on both and tor snowflake on desktop
Try deleting your Firefox profile (back up your bookmarks, passwords, hell your whole profile first) and doing a clean reinstall. Firefox support has the deets on how to.
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.
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.
What is your desktop CPU and RAM and your phones SoC?
Desktop is intel, phone is snapdragon. Firefox is the only issue on both.
You need to be more specific. “Intel” can mean anything from a 90s chip to something released recently.
I can’t remember the exact model number. I can tell you that it’s from like 2010, but I can’t get more specific than that because I can’t remember the model right off hand. What I can say for sure is that with chromium it does not freeze and my fans also don’t run as hard.
I’ve never encountered any of these issues with Firefox on Android and Windows.
Android is the one that’s freezing up my screen entirely and Linux is the one that I’m having video call issues with.
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.
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.
Orion uses WebKit and allows Firefox and Chrome extensions.
