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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

For me Firefox crashes all the time in normal use. I am talking minimum twice a day. It also has this weird problem where it will pin one thread to 100% and lock up the whole browser when downloading files. I also had to disable video hardware acceleration or else Twitch crashes every 5-10 minutes but luckily my CPU is so strong that it's not too big of a deal to do software decoding.

I still use it out of principle but it has been a way worse experience than Chromium ever was for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

what os/hardware? I too never have an issue but im talking a pc. Is your experience with android?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am talking about on desktop but actually the Android version of Firefox was such a laggy buggy mess I switched to Brave on mobile.

On my desktop I use Arch btw with a 7950X and a 6900 XT. Honestly after using it for over a year I kind of hate it. I am so fed up with how many small annoying problems it has. Someone else mentioned Thorium in this thread and I might give that a try.

If Firefox works great for you that's awesome but it is BY FAR the buggiest piece of software on my entire computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have different hardware, but I am running arch with firefox daily. I have had maybe 2 freezes in the last two years. Other than that it works as I would expect. Are you keeping your system updated?

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