Has anyone noticed Firefox been getting shittier and shittier with each new version? Or is it just for me?
Yes, everything is.
>>108809814Well, yeah, but firefox seems to be getting SPECIALLY shitty as versions go by, how did they managed to achieve such feat of shitness?
>>108809811on the contrary it's getting better
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>>108809811only since 3.6
>have to restart Firefox several times a day because it gets progressively slower until it's unusableAt least I managed to find a workaround. Since I got a new PC, I only have to restart Firefox once every few days now.
>>108809811>have constant freezing issues that lock up the whole browser for like 15 seconds several times a day ever since 149Yup. I'm switching to Brave if they don't fix this shit soon. I would've already if I didn't have tons of tabs open and could replicate the way tabs scroll on Firefox rather than just becoming smaller and smaller the more you have.
>>108809811mine has been getting better for at least 3 years now, the first few years after 52 are long gone now chrome somehow turned completely unusable i believe the shill lion is doing well but dunno
>>108809811Trannyfox is mainly funded by Google, their only purpose is to prevent Google from getting raped with antitrust lawsuits because technically Gecko is an alternative to Chromium.
>>108809811Nah haven't felt a difference from versions in years. I emerge like 2 firefox esr updates per month, but they all feel the same.
>>108809811Very much so, every Chromium browser is unironically better on RAM and speed, which was like the whole point of being on Firefox years ago (besides maybe telemetry)
>>108809811yeah its awful i had to switch over when chrome banned ublock and firefox is the worst browser ive ever used.
>>108810831started having the issue after switching the esr slot for the rapid one, maybe that's the issue
yes I have to use esr now.
>>108809814This, although the degradation is slow enough that I don't really notice anything. I suppose every once in a while there have been improvements as well. It still blows Chromium out of the fucking water though, and that's what's important.
>>108809811its a recent thing, it started getting shit like 5-10 years ago
I use an unstable build so I expect things to break but I still get surprised at how long some things stay broken. It implies something about their review/merge process that is disrespectful to their users if they persist beyond the unstable phase and make it into release branches.
>>108809811They removed support for gif favicons recently >>108810338I had the same problem, clear your downloads folder, just moving everything into a subfolder is enough.
>>108811718Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't help. My downloads folder is set to the desktop, which has literally nothing on it most of the time. The browsing/download history and the saved site data are cleared frequently, so it's not that either. I even set it to clear all data on exit except for a few whitelisted cookies, so there shouldn't be any junk data hanging around. I think it's just a shit browser.
>>108809811Yea I recently had to go into the config and disable hardware media decoding to stop it from crashing my GPU whenever a video played in the browser.
>>108809811I have this with librewolf. I restart my laptop every few days because playing a youtube video will max out my cpu/gpu and send my fan speed to 100%. Top shows librewolf has 4 gpu processes all at 100% and kwin_wayland at 140%.I switched from wayland back to xlibre and it's way snappier. Librewolf isn't killing my cpu either.
>>108811822>crashing my GPUThat sounds more like a driver issue. I wouldn't blame a normal piece of software for that.
>>108811907Yea that was my first assumption, but I tried multiple different GPU drivers including reverting to old ones with a clean uninstall and the problem persisted.Obviously it's the GPU video decoder crashing, but Firefox was the only software that caused it when decoding video, and it only started happening 2 or 3 months ago.It was a fairly simple workaround and my CPU can handle the decoding just fine, it's just another one of those little annoyances that keep me from using Firefox as my primary browser.
>>108809835If you think it's shitty now, wait until they force the new UI redesign down our throats. It's so so fucking atrocious it almost makes me think it was intentional, like mozilla was paid by google to make it god awful so they could drive people away to chromium browsers. Picrel.
>>108809811>Has anyone noticed Firefox been getting shittier and shittier with each new version?Yes and it sucked
>>108809811the browsers performance is getting worse? i wouldn't know. i firefox in ram.
I haven't been having any issues. Works fine. I have 64gb of ram though. I used to have issues on my machine that had only 16
when i use tiktok on firefox the videos are lagging
