like others said, this is probably just a system issue
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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.
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.
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?
Nope, ublock origin on both and tor snowflake on desktop
Try deleting your Firefox profile (back up your bookmarks, passwords, hell your whole profile first) and doing a clean reinstall. Firefox support has the deets on how to.
If everyone else says it works fine and it's just you, well, I wonder what's wrong with your system. Firefox is just a symptom. It could just be Firefox. It could be any number of other things wrong. For me a great example is when webgl fails I blamed Firefox. Turns out I have Nvidia drivers broken and it failed to enable hardware acceleration. A system locking up because of a rogue all? I smell something else wrong.
Chromium works fine on the same system
What's your system and phone and what are they operating on? This sounds less like a Firefox issue and more like a system issue.
Desktop is Linux Mint Debian and phone is Android 15. I know for a fact chromium works and does not freeze up my system on LMDE.
What is your desktop CPU and RAM and your phones SoC?
Desktop is intel, phone is snapdragon. Firefox is the only issue on both.
You need to be more specific. "Intel" can mean anything from a 90s chip to something released recently.
I can't remember the exact model number. I can tell you that it's from like 2010, but I can't get more specific than that because I can't remember the model right off hand. What I can say for sure is that with chromium it does not freeze and my fans also don't run as hard.
Orion uses WebKit and allows Firefox and Chrome extensions.
The only issue I've come across is with the Android version. When I'm typing in the address bar, Firefox Suggest shows the page I've previously visited, but as I continue typing it disappears, then I keep typing, it comes back again, etc. So if I stop typing on the wrong letter to click the link, it's no longer there.
Librewolf
First of all, isn't that just a Firefox fork? I would think it would have the same problems. Although it may be better. For second, isn't it only on desktop? It wouldn't solve my phone problem.
Ah, yes, phone. I believe at their website, they have recommendations for phone.
It's not "just" a Firefox fork. They've completely broken with Firefox, afaik, over privacy and monetization. But you can still donate, if you have the means and are inclined. They're wholly deserving, imo.
Funny thing, I had switched off from firefox to zen for like.. 7 months and it was the best browsing experience, but then I accidentally broke a thing when messing around with the zen mods, and had to reinstall, and when I did it turns out I had an old version, and the new one was so shit I came back crawling to firefox
Anyhow :3.. im also kinda on a hunt for a browser that fits my needs that isn't chromium based, but nothing I found particularly had the stuff I'd want over firefox, so im just using it cause it's my "fine enough" fallback option