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Honestly, I've just about had enough (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 days ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Nope, ublock origin on both and tor snowflake on desktop