Hey there, I’m a long time firefox user and have never ever had any problems with firefox. But after the latest update, the browser will now just randomly freeze and it happens very often. It will freeze for over a minute at the time, making it impossible to use the browser. I’ve refreshed firefox as suggested on their websites, I’ve reinstalled but still all the same. Anyone got any suggestions to what I can try? Or anyone else experienced the same thing?
Edit: Using Garuda Linux
Solved: It’s not firefox, it’s Garuda issues. Thanks for the tips and tricks everyone gave 🙌
I have seen no problem with the latest version (118.0) so far on Linux.
Maybe you should add the OS you are using.
Have you tried a new profile to see if maybe one of your extensions might be involved?
https://profiler.firefox.com/ might be useful. about:profiling too. Maybe also about:logging about:processes and potentially others in about:about
Good thing it’s just my end at least. But, It’s at a point where i can barely troubleshoot as it is just too unresponsive atm. I’ll check out what you mentioned though!
it is definitely just ‘your end’. corrupt profile, binaries, or addon. possibly a hardware issue. firefox gets abused here daily without issue.
run memtest and a smart diag on storage, too. if those are ok, export your bookmarks and saved passwords, zip up your profile directory as a backup, uninstall firefox. delete all remnants including cache/temp and profile directories. reinstall. don’t add anything back right away and try it.
You could have system monitor open in order to check what happens with Firefox process when the browser freezes.
See if you can find a reproducible way to freeze the browser. That way you can start to narrow down the cause of the issue.
You could stay on the older version of Firefox and only update once the next version is released.
You can find older versions on the site, but I recommend reading this first. (It also contains a link to the older versions)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-firefox
If you’ve tried all other things, you can try to refresh Firefox. It’s the nuclear option in that it will remove your customisations, but is likely to resolve issues potentially caused by them.
Try to run your Firefox profile in troubleshoot mode to see if it’s caused by an extension.
Alternatively create a fresh Firefox profile and see how it goes there.
firefox -ProfileManager
If it turns out it’s really Firefox doing it you can downgrade to a previous version (but make a copy of your ~/.mozilla dir first, and don’t go too far back with the versions). Garuda is Arch-based if I’m not mistaken so you can install and use the downgrade command line tool from AUR.
Then don’t sue it.
