Firefox 102 hangs from time to time

Lucien_Lachance

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?

brent

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)

Lucien_Lachance

brent yeh ive done tonnes of those too but none recently

Cloak

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.

elfprince

Haven't used Firefox for a couple of months now, at least, since the freezing started. Haven't gone back since. Using Brave and pretty happy with it. In my opinion, the FF team botched it. Too bad, I used only Firefox until this.

brent

elfprince seems like a series of bad decisions and its a shame. the whole thing is murky. it's a browser with a specific function so I'm glad I spread the wealth. Braves a good browser I used it for a long time.

joluveba

I downloaded the Firefox Beta 108 appimage, I did some configuration (the same extensions I used in my Firefox eopkg), I opened a few sites, and bang! Frozen again. I have just deleted the appimage.

However, the Firefox Nightly 109 appimage has not frozen a single time, after a few days of use. Let's hope this is the good one. 😃

brent

joluveba did the current repo 107.0 freeze on you?

joluveba

joluveba I downloaded the Firefox Beta 108 appimage, I did some configuration (the same extensions I used in my Firefox eopkg), I opened a few sites, and bang! Frozen again. I have just deleted the appimage.

I cite myself. Despite my disappointing experience with Firefox Beta 108 appimage, I couldn't help myself and installed Firefox 108 from the Unstable repository. Unfortunately, it froze again, but this time I saw an improvement, if I minimized the window, the scrolling worked. Anyway, Firefox 108 didn't solve my problem.

Now, the good news. Firefox Nightly 109 appimage keeps working OK, it hasn't frozen a single time. It's what I'm using to write this post. When it lands in the Shannon repository, I think that my Firefox problem will come to an end.

joluveba

brent did the current repo 107.0 freeze on you?

Definitely, yes. The problem in my computer started with Firefox 102, and I still suffer from it (Firefox 107).

Firefox 109 Nightly (appimage) has not frozen a single time since I downloaded it a few days ago, so I guess it's the one that will solve it.

Lucien_Lachance

great, now thunderbird does it too, after todays update

brent

joluveba did you ever just kill the app when its froze, then relaunch it? It took me a few days to know I could do that but once I did the freezing stopped (until the next time I had to kill the app rinse/repeat) but it bought me several days. maybe it's the way FF occupies memory or something?

edit: nevermind

joluveba

brent Yes I did. When I relaunched it, Firefox simply worked until it froze again, which could be in a few minutes, or a few hours. There was was a difference, when I killed Firefox with System Monitor and relaunched it, the first time it remembered the sites I was reading, but the second time it didn't.

jrg

I'm using pclinuxos with enlightenment 25.3 and have same issues with Firefox 107.1 release. Just an FYI, only time I see the issue is when I visit https://finance.yahoo.com/. The scroll bar on the right appears for a moment then disappears and screen freezes. I can move through open tabs which become highlighted but that yahoo page persists. Closing and restarting FF returns normal behavior, for a while only.
We are not alone!
And the aforementioned LinuxMint 15 page thread seems to be going down some rabbit hole with a possible solution but I couldn't find my tin-foil hat - need to find out which they are looking at - FF 108 release or nightly - I don't want to bounce around with multi versions yet (I don't play virtually, gives me a headache.)

joluveba

jrg PCLinuxOS is like the girlfriend I have always wanted to, but can't have. Cool distro, I wish it hadn't given me so much trouble when I used it!

I think your problem is different from mine, and the one described on the Linux Mint forum. I can open Yahoo Finance fine with Firefox 107. Of course my Firefox 107 eventually froze after a few minutes, but that happens with any site I visit.

Below you will see the same site with Firefox 109 Nightly appimage. So far, it has never frozen in my machine.

Edit: Typo

brent

joluveba makes me wonder what 109 has that 107 does not have?
(in 107 yahoo finance was a slow loader plus my extensions only let half the page load but kept my scrollbars).

jrg Closing and restarting FF returns normal behavior, for a while only.

I wonder why that trick works long term for some (me for instance) and not for others?

questions questions

brent

joluveba so far so good 24 hrs into the repo version. your standalone apps are immune from freezing. that could mean so many things brain hurts though

kaktuspalme

I also have freezes from time to time. But I have some development extensions installed so they might be one reason. But still very annoying don't have problems on Chrome with the same extensions. I have the freezes also on my Macbook since around version 100 I would say. If 109 would be good again that would be amazing otherwise I really have to consider switching to chrome fully.

WetGeek

kaktuspalme If 109 would be good again that would be amazing otherwise I really have to consider switching to chrome fully.

I understand that Vivaldi doesn't have a bit of Firefox code in it, and it might be a good alternative to Google. Lots of neat features.

kaktuspalme

WetGeek I already have Vivaldi installed and use it from time to time. Would also be a candidate to switch to.

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