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.

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

    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.

      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.

        6 days later

        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.

            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!

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

                        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.

                          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.

                                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.

                                    kyrios This sounds like a hardware acceleration issue to me.

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

                                      15 days later

                                      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.

                                        Firefox with hardware acceleration off keeps freezing randomly.

                                        I found this thread on Linux Mint forum, someone is having similar problems (curiously, they reference my own thread):

                                        https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=376770

                                        They report they started having this problem with Firefox 102 (like me), and it affects only some people.

                                        This Friday we will be receiving Firefox 103, let's hope it solves the problem.

                                          joluveba This Friday we will be receiving Firefox 103, let's hope it solves the problem.

                                          It seems it did. I have been using Firefox 103 for 2 hours 20 minutes non-stop (yes, I'm timing it), always with a youtube video on, and so far, no freezes. Firefox 102 lasted half an hour, 40 minutes maximum, before it froze.

                                          If Firefox freezes again, I will write another post here, but so far so good.

                                            4 days later

                                            I regret to say that this issue has not been completely solved yet. Firefox still freezes from time to time. The good part is that Firefox 103 has improved a lot. With Firefox 102 (and 102.0.1) it was a question of time, 10 minutes, 20, sooner or later it would hang. With Firefox 103, some days it doesn't hang at all, and I can use it longer before it hangs. Still, it's an annoying situation, because Firefox 101 and earlier didn't hang on my desktop computer. I hope that Mozilla solves it one and for all.

                                            EDIT: I have deleted the ~/.mozilla/ folder, as Harvey suggested, and reinstalled Firefox, let's see if that helps.

                                              I've been using firefox for a long time and I can say that deleting the .mozilla and .cache/mozilla folders is something I don't hesitate to do (or I just rename those two folders temporarily to do a quick test).