Random problem I'm having: The Firefox UI randomly freezes until I restart it. I can use a particular tab fine but I can't close it, click buttons in the UI, etc. It seems the process running the main UI is freezing.

It's been happening for ages, running under Gnome on Nobara (and I saw the same thing under Bazzite as well).

I'll eventually go ask in a tech support community but I thought I'd ask here just in case someone knows what's up :)

[–] Antigrav@mastodon.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

@Dave , my guess was cache related, though being the same under other circumstances I'd check the hardware related stuff -
hw acceleration and drivers.
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-firefox-freezing-issue/

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

(I disabled all addons except uBlock, and the UI still froze. 🤷 🤦 😭 )

[–] Antigrav@mastodon.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@Dave , darn that is weird. Uninstall, reinstall?
Waterfox? (running out of ideas).
(pi-hole instead of ublock)
When you stop hardware acceleration you have to quit the browser and open it again for it to be effective. Also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/vj5r67/ublock/_origin/_completely/_blows/_up/_pc/_on/

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I am regularly closing and opening the browser 😅. I also am sure hardware acceleration was disabled, it was immediately obvious when sites with animated transitions slowed to a crawl.

I might try creating a fresh profile, that should hopefully avoid the risk of previously saved settings being reloaded even after a reinstall.

Waterfox is a good idea too haha. I should try it for a while and see if it has the same issue.

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