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).

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

                            This didn't work, it keeps hanging. 🙁

                            Tangetially, I have been trying the Firefox Appimage (103.0.1) as a possible substitute, but after a few promising hours of use, it eventually froze. To those who are interested in the Appimage, let me tell you I found a few problems: I couldn't import bookmarks (neither in html nor json format), I couldn't download files with the Always ask you where to save files on. On the positive side, it was very easy to integrate the appimage in the KDE menu, icon included. Easier than I expected.

                            Perhaps I will try the Firefox flatpak, but I don't expect it to work better than the .eopkg version.

                            Today's updates include newer versions of Nvidia drivers. I suspect this is a problem between Firefox and my old Nvidia GPU (my laptop uses AMD GPU and there Firefox never hanged), so let's see if it helps.

                              4 months later

                              Thread necromancy!!

                              I downloaded the Firefox Nightly 109 appimage, this is the third day I have been using it, not intensively I admit, and so far it has not frozen a single time, which is very promising.

                              The last version of Firefox in the Solus repository, 107, unfortunately still freezes randomly.

                              To Susan/SMG of the Linux Mint forums, if you are reading me, thank you very much for your efforts in solving this issue. 😃

                                joluveba This FINALLY happened to me three times this week. wouldn't open tabs. sluggish. listless unresponsive, frozen. All the awful Firefox experiences I've read about here at the forum, and more, came home to roost for me. I wasted oodles of time trying to fix firefox...migrated stuff I needed to do to different browsers...
                                ...then I found a solution that nobody mentioned and nobody tried: killed the app and relaunched it. Worked for me the rest of the day just fine. We will see if this method works today as well.

                                    brent When did it start? Firefox 107? In my case, the problems started with Firefox 102, I'm completely sure of that.

                                        joluveba whatever version it was before the last update (yesterday for me) then that's the version. Froze awful starting tues, wed, thur, fri but finally just relaunching it did the trick.
                                        **has not frozen after update

                                          this has started happening to me too now, before i didnt have a single firefox crash in 10 years. the only change ive made apart from whats been coming thru the repos is to install the firefox multi account container addon. anyone else here using that?

                                            Lucien_Lachance no container add-on with me. I havent changed other addons in a couple years.
                                            Working Theory: maybe FF updates are not agreeing will all the hardening/config stuff I've done over the years? (long shot)

                                                I installed Mint on an Intel iMac and yes indeed Firefox hung the Xserver, installed Brave and no issue. Something to keep an eye on.