Firefox 102 hangs from time to time

qsl

I had the whole system go unresponsive a couple of times recently, but hard to say if it was specifically Firefox (it was open).

Speaking of, what is the equivalent to task manager?

brent

qsl Speaking of, what is the equivalent to task manager?

I'd say in Budgie that System Monitor (gnome-system-monitor) is the closest things to task manager.
A good tool to see the resource hogs. edit: and stop them

joluveba

Harvey I highly doubt the new update will do much for you as it simply moves FF from using bundled libicu back to system libicu again and we've been using bundled since 31st May so clearly not related.

Thank you for the info.

Harvey If it were me I would try deleting ~/.mozilla/ forcing it to start completely fresh. This will result in bookmarks, saved passwords, history, extensions, settings, active sessions etc being lost for FF so back it up first if that is important to you. See how it goes.

I'm going on holidays, so I won't have access to my desktop computer for a few weeks. When I'm back, I will update it, and if I keep having this problem, I'll try this.

I'll probably take my laptop with me (also Solus), so I'll see if I have the same problem with Firefox on my laptop. So far, I had this problem only on my desktop machine.

Today, I have been browsing (Firefox, my desktop machine) on Reddit to check if anything bad happens, but everything was OK.

Staudey Maybe some config issue, or related to one of your installed add-ons?

I use Ublock Origin and Plasma Integration, but I have always used them.

qsl I had the whole system go unresponsive a couple of times recently, but hard to say if it was specifically Firefox (it was open).

I had this problem with Firefox, but not with Brave, for example.

qsl what is the equivalent to task manager?

It depends on your desktop:

Budgie and Gnome: Gnome System Monitor (as brent said)
MATE: MATE System Monitor
KDE Plasma: Plasma System Monitor, and Ksysguard

Thank you everybody who tried to help me. I will update this thread.

elfprince

Can confirm that Firefox freezes all the time after last update on Jul 1, on Budgie.

joluveba

Staudey I use Firefox exclusively and so far haven't been able to reproduce that issue either.

Sorry, I missed this part. I have this problem on my desktop, but so far not on my laptop.

Desktop
Intel Pentium G4400
Nvidia GeForce GT 710

Laptop
Asus Vivobook
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8

What CPU and GPU are you using?

elfprince Can confirm that Firefox freezes all the time after last update on Jul 1, on Budgie.

Not glad to read that. In my case, Firefox doesn't freeze constantly, it works normally and after using it for half an hour, it freezes.

elfprince

joluveba Yes, freezes soon after start.

brent

Seconds ago. Completely crashed on me, quit, disappeared, and when I reopened it it did not save my page tabs like always. (Only 3 tabs open; no video). While I cannot replicate this thread or elfprince 's thread, I am accumulating some post-update Firefox peculiarities of my own.

DJSupertel

Confirmed, Firefox freezes for me too! Has done it a few times when scrolling down a page and then it locks and becomes unresponsive, but I can move the mouse pointer to shut down Firefox and after that it appears to behave normally again. Never had the problem before last update.

elfprince

Firefox is mutating, for the worse.

xonus

My Firefox crashed too but on VirtualBox, problem with Firefox not only on Solus OS, on Parrot OS (Debian) problem too

elfprince

I switched to Brave, and I am not looking back. Brave has a nice feature of being able to pin my site icons to the left side panel, so the number of my open tabs can be minimized.

brent

elfprince Firefox will work itself out eventually, likely. Like Firefox, Brave is a little leaky OOTB and will need some tweaking. I found their (Brave's) security settings top notch and plentiful and I had that thing dialed in tight like FF. Like all chrome knockoffs they dont really delete all cookies after shutting down (even if you instructed it to), like firefox does, so you may have to manually houseclean on occasion, but I didn't find it a big deal.
Good luck.

joluveba

I have no access to my desktop so I can't check it. I'm writing this from my laptop, and so far, Firefox has not frozen a single time. Perhaps it has something to do with the CPU...

elfprince I switched to Brave, and I am not looking back. Brave has a nice feature of being able to pin my site icons to the left side panel, so the number of my open tabs can be minimized.

Brave rocks.

elfprince

joluveba This is a result of the Firefox update 2 weeks ago, and has nothing to do with Budgie, Solus or my PC. Other people reported similar freezing at the same time. I appreciate your help though. :-)

Admins, this thread can be closed now. Thanks!

brent

elfprince how you liking Brave? (I enjoyed it for a long time before switching to ungoogled chromium.)

joluveba

elfprince This is a result of the Firefox update 2 weeks ago, and has nothing to do with Budgie, Solus or my PC. Other people reported similar freezing at the same time. I appreciate your help though. :-)

Admins, this thread can be closed now. Thanks!

In my case, I started having problems when Firefox got updated to firefox-102.0-252-1-x86_64.eopkg. I think that was 3 weeks ago, but I'm not sure.

I hope the admins do not close this thread, until I go back home (I'm in a different country, with no access to my desktop computer) and check if Firefox works well again.

[deleted] Sometimes the internet bogs down. The thing to do is if you think it's Firefox, open up a different Browser and see if it's doing the same thing or not. A process of elimination, is it the browser or the internet?

On my desktop, it's Firefox, for sure. To sum up, on my desktop, Firefox sometimes freezes, Brave does not. On my laptop (which I'm currently using), neither Firefox nor Brave have ever frozen. Besides, my desktop is connected to the internet with a physical cable.

elfprince

brent I do like Brave a lot. Some things are easier to deal with. Right now I have settled on Brave.

[deleted]

joluveba Sometimes the internet bogs down. The thing to do is if you think it's Firefox, open up a different Browser and see if it's doing the same thing or not. A process of elimination, is it the browser or the internet? I prefer Brave rather than Firefox, actually I like Edge, but . . . .

brent

elfprince if you don't bitmine/bitcoin all that other stuff can be disabled/disappeared so it's not in the way. I think I enjoyed the Shields feature the most along with the speed.

kyrios

joluveba On my desktop, it's Firefox, for sure. To sum up, on my desktop, Firefox sometimes freezes, Brave does not. On my laptop (which I'm currently using), neither Firefox nor Brave have ever frozen. Besides, my desktop is connected to the internet with a physical cable.

This sounds like a hardware acceleration issue to me.

Staudey

kyrios This sounds like a hardware acceleration issue to me.

Wouldn't surprise me. Firefox 102 also broke nvidia-vaapi-driver functionality for me.

joluveba

Finally I came back home after my plane landed. Switched on my desktop, updated, fooled around a little, and bang, Firefox got blocked again. Bummer. To sum up, this happens on my desktop when I use Firefox, never with Brave. On my laptop, both Firefox and Brave work perfect.

kyrios This sounds like a hardware acceleration issue to me.

I will switch off hardware acceleration, and will see. Thank you for the advice.