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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The number of tab crashes in Firefox is way higher than it ever should be. I still use it but it's def not as stable as the chrome stuff.

[–] hglman@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What are you using that makes it crash, virtually never happens to me.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 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.

[–] dtrain@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah…I’m gonna say you have something that isn’t playing well with Firefox. Extensions, hardware…. I’ve been using Firefox for years now across multiple OS’s and hardware and I’ve never had anything like this happen to me

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have privacy badger, ublock, dark reader, tab session manager, bitwarden, and grease monkey(that is used to tweak hacker News).

I guess I could try to turn off ublock and privacy badger to see if that fixes anything, but the other extensions seem way less invasive and less likely to be the culprit.

But browsing without ublock seems miserable.

[–] dtrain@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, more often than not Ublock or others ad blocks are the culprit for me.

And it’s not immediately obvious that such is the case when it happens.

Good luck

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No idea. Nothing crazy. Twitch is one that's fairly regular but it happens seemingly randomly with normal browsing. It hasn't happened on mobile as far as I remember.

I send in each crash report so hopefully they'll be able to sort it out.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 4 points 10 months ago

For me I had to disable video hardware acceleration (just video, not all acceleration) for Twitch to stop crashing all the time.

[–] ItCantBeThatEasy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I use Firefox all day on both Mac and Windows and this rarely happens. It does seem to happen on Linux for me sometimes though.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I haven't seen that happen in possibly two years, let alone regularly.

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Tab crashes with ublock enabled or without?

If without, it's probably ads/trackers crashing the tab.