Thread 106884722

Is FIREFOX dying?

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>massive time to load
>failed to load page
>F5 does nothing
>need to select url in the url bar and then press enter
>page finally loads

WTF /g/? This shit happens with every website randomly, is it a DNS thing? Also big slow down wich also happens randomly. I tested edge and it seems to work fine

yes it's a DNS thing

>>106884768
>yes it's a DNS thing
Right now i'm using the cloudfare DNS...

>>106884722 (OP)
Firefox has been de-facto abandonware for years now. Why are you still using it?

>>106884722 (OP)
>need to select url in the url bar and then press enter
>page finally loads
I get that too but only for youtube when using firefox on my phone.

Firefox is less than 2% on some days, I have heard rumours that some Mozilla devs just want to switch to chromium or at least add a "Chromium mode" for the long list of buggy websites.

>open firefox
>pages don't load
>even the inspector on an empty page doesn't load
>have to wait minutes for it to get normal sometimes
been having this since forever

>>106884722 (OP)
I never encountered this and I run an ungodly amount of extensions, scripts, preferences and userChrome changes.

Closest I can think of is some tabs stuck on buffering for a few seconds (in 99% of cases it's YouTube so it's not surprising), but they're solved by duplicating them and it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying. I love my foxy woxy.

>>106884722 (OP)
it's their caching algo, it's niggerlicious, please disable it completely, literally 0 use case only annoyance, or use ctrl+f5 for a real reload.

>>106885003
Actually, I take it back, I do remember encountering something like that, but it's only when opening a ton of tabs, 100+ all at once and even then it's very rare. I use an extension that opens the tabs unloaded. If anyone wants it, it's this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/load-background-tabs-on-select/

Pin it to the taskbar and click it for on/off.

>>106885025
I'm more of a CTRL + SHIFT + R kind of guy. It's easier to do one-handed.

>>106884722 (OP)
I've noticed that nowdays it has an annoying tendency to just hang for a few seconds when loading tabs (regardless of it being in cache or not) both on mobile and desktop.

>>106884722 (OP)
Librewolf just works for me. I use many userscripts and addons.

>>106885074
>>106885042
>>106885025
>>106884897
>>106884856
it's time

>>106884722 (OP)
firefox has been dying since a decade ago.

>>106884722 (OP)
>Is FIREFOX dying?
Firefox died in 2014.

>>106884722 (OP)
I'm using it right now. it's fine.
check your proxy settings. you may have malware that installed itself as a global http proxy.

>>106885768
This browser spies on your crypto stuff btw + fuck chromium

>>106885074
>annoying tendency
The thing I always hated about Firefox was that, when you opened a new tab and started to type in the search/address box, when it finished loading the page, it would replace/mix whatever you typed with the address.
To the very last day I used Firefox, I had this issue; I even entered a rabbit hole about it and found out that devs expected users to wait for the new tab to completely load before starting to type.

>>106885842
Maybe it's cause I'm using a new tab related extension or maybe they changed it or maybe it's some setting that I changed, but it works on my machine.

>>106885867
The only extension I ever used was uBlock (I am an anti-Semite and refuse to give kikes any money).

>>106884722 (OP)
no to all except yea chrome is snappier

>>106884897
it's you

>>106884722 (OP)
Idk, maybe you just have viruses. I also use firefox and I don't have this problem

>>106885768
Fuck brave

>>106884722 (OP)
Firefox has been a buggy piece of shit for over 20 years. Still not using chrome.

>>106886129
andreas k(l)ing will save us with ladyboy browser, just trust the plan

>>106884811
>de-facto abandonware
>still gets updates every couple of weeks
?

>>106886436
>gets consistent updates
>is still dogshit