Thread 106314446

I'm having issues with this release...

Haven't appeared on Mint yet.
Not sure what the nerds decide.

>>106314446 (OP)
What issues? I haven't updooted yet.

>still not out on Arch (except for Flatpak)
We are using outdated insecure browser!!

I don't care. Actual version is 115.0 ESR

143 will probably be "fun" with 128esr running out...

Is there any way to check what bullshit Mozilla has added between 128 and 143?
What about:config flags one needs to set this time to not get stabbed in the back by Mozilla?
At this point I hate Mozilla even more than I hated Microsoft in the early 2000s.

>>106314736
No need to fuck around about:config, just install the latest Firefox ESR and use Betterfox (which is really fast, but still modern Firefox), or use Basilisk (which is really slow with JS, but extensible and not Poozilla).

>>106314908
I use GNU IceCat, which I why I worry about the ESR major version change next month.
I'm not quite sure how much GNU unfucks Mozilla Firefox, but I suppose, removing non-free shit already goes a long way.

>>106314512
The navigation bar keeps fucking up periodically and refusing to be clicked. I have to restart the entire thing to get it to be usable again.

I think I had another issue too but I can't recall what it was.

>>106314446 (OP)
It outright hard-crashed for me yesterday. Some day I'll switch browsers.

>>106314512
I had that issue on Gnome since at least Firefox 140.

sned

I gave up on Firefox after 24 years (including back when it was Seamonkey). Edge just weks.

>>106316112
It wasn't ever Seamonkey, that's a separate browser continuing the Mozilla Suite.

>You can now see what’s behind a link before visiting it with Link Previews. Long press a link (or right-click and choose Preview Link). Previews can optionally include AI-generated key points, which are processed on your device to protect your privacy.
>Link Previews is gradually rolling out to ensure performance and quality and is now available in en-US, en-CA, en-GB, en-AU for users with more than 3 GB of available RAM.
Why yes, I DO want firefox wasting my ram on AI bullshit. I'm gonna turn that shit off immediately.

I have noticed lately i am starting to sound and think like a boomer.
Why can't things just fucking work like they used to?
Why does everything need 15 different functions besides its main usage point?
Why does everything need at least 4-5 different addons or other workarounds just to disable shit i didn't want in the first place and to make it work like i want?

The worst part is i will still keep using this shit because everything else relevant is either Google or Microsoft, or worse, and i have been using Firefox since 2004 so at this point i am well past sunk cost in terms of getting used to something new.
Yes there are alt versions based on firefox but sooner or later the shit trickles down anyway.

>>106316622
Because you have to make your product look perpetually new to increase your market share. Basically, things are shit because capitalism.

>>106317292
I do feel like this is a difference between younger generations and the boomers of olde. Having grown up around the evolution of software we can rationalize why developers inject bullshit instead of just ranting about it. Doesn't make it any easier to use but at least you have the insight needed to not let it drive you to frustration, simply annoyance.

>>106316622
Its just the way things are these days.
God I hope ladybird pans out.

>>106316622
Now that you mention it, I'm struggling to think of anything new that they implemented which I haven't disabled. Maybe the fact that they made Keyword/custom searches a bit more streamlined is good, I guess.

Meanwhile, Firefox still doesn't have a proper profile manager. Not only does the default one look like it's from 1995, but you can actually enable the new one (which is meant to copy Chrome) in about:config except that it doesn't work and just bugs out. And they've been working on it for ages and it's still not ready.

>>106314548
It's out on Arch. Update before you get RCE'd!

>>106316622
All terribly understandable sentiments.
Corporatism/capitalism faggotry ruins all good things, eventually.
But Chromium-based stuff has its own set of problems. "Sunk cost" is beyond retarded, but in this situation, it is simply that switching really is a waste of anyone's time. I use both Brave and Firefox. Firefox has been my main since version 6, but I keep Brave because there is the occasional website that throws a fit and starts being a little bitch for me not using a Chromium-based browser. Whatever. Brave fits the bill. It cannot tempt me into switching, but it does the job when I can't use Firefox because whatever web devs are little emasculated sons of a thousand STD-ridden whores.

Can you turn off this preview link shit? Also, why not just click the link you want to open?
>but I don't know what I'm clicking!
If you are already clicking shit without knowing what it is you have bigger problems than that.

Wow, talk about issues, now I am getting one I never got before: Captchas are suddenly failing after they have been working fine for a long time. Each thread loads a specific Captcha puzzle over and over, never changes, so they always fail on completion.
Have to use Brave just for 4chan at the moment. wtf

Catastrophic failure holy shit.

>>106317844
>God I hope ladybird pans out.
Same here. Otherwise we are stuck with ungoogled and unmozilla'd browsers as the best choices, which would be absolutely ridiculous.
>>106316622
>Why can't things just fucking work like they used to?
That's not the problem I have. The problem is the constant backstabbing by the people that originally claimed to do it for the people.
Remember the crowdfunded NYT ad for Firebird/fox? In hindsight I'm glad to not have chipped in for that (too young/poor at the time). Fuck the Mozilla Foundation. Fuck it to the ground.

>>106320514
I know this isn't much consolation... But it works on my machine.

Maybe you've got some extension enabled that blocks the captcha from updating?

>>106315082
>The navigation bar keeps fucking up periodically and refusing to be clicked
I've had this for ages on Ubuntu lol, Furrycocks has been fucked for a long time

How long can I keep using Firefox after next year on the macOS side of this computer? This is an Intel MacBook.

>>106314512
NTA but for some reason my GPU had huge fucking spikes. It was running on 60C. I upgraded to this version >>106314488 and now my GPU is sitting at 40C no issues. Someone on the orange website said that it was something with Mozilla using LLMs to suggest stuff based on your bookmarks.

>>106323717
Just found this:
>People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an "inference engine" built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.

>Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. All we have so far is a smoking gun, but it does look like Mozilla's product management has maintained its laser-like aim at its own feet.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/

>>106315082
I use vertical tabs and sometimes the sidebar will get stuck expanded and not auto collapse, so I have to right click somewhere which makes it collapse again. Not seen anyone else mention it but it's been a problem for weeks for me.

>>106323751
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled false

>>106323752
I just updooted and fucking hell they made it even worse, now it gets stuck any time you move the mouse off the window.

>>106315082
There it goes again. What the hell.

the google money couldn't dry up soon enough

>>106323752
The only sidebar issues I had were with the chatbots bricking the entire browser after a few messages. I was going to disable them completely anyway. Try disabling the chatbots in about:config if you haven't already and see if that does anything. I don't have the preference names, but you should be able to find them easily.

>>106315082
Maybe your issue has a different cause, butI I had the same thing happen when I used the chatbots. See >>106326112

>>106324555
This. Maybe they'll start making a better browser again once the entire SJW-fluff, which is where all that Google money currently goes, has been made redundant.

Come home white man

Edge does not have this problem

>>106327764
>slow, can get clogged