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[Solved] Firefox freezes randomly? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 🙌

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.