Just had to downgrade Firefox

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I finally gave in to the repeated bleating and downloaded the Firefox 89 update. After inexplicable freezes on the Web, I've just gone back to FF88. Rooting around the Web shows quite a few people are having FF89 hang up for no reason that anyone can determine so far. It's not like there is a repeatable pattern.

It has happened to me on this forum and on the BBC website. The only possible common factor might be the laptop going to sleep, but even then I revive the machine, do some stuff and then it freezes. I hate rolling back updates, but sometimes you gotta do it.
 
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I've really been getting tired of the seemingly constant updates with Firefox. To the point where I'm giving serious consideration to bailing for something else (not Chrome ;)) - we'll see.
 
Erich said:
I've really been getting tired of the seemingly constant updates with Firefox. To the point where I'm giving serious consideration to bailing for something else (not Chrome ;)) - we'll see.
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To be fair, when FF89 runs it is noticeably quicker than FF88. They got that bit right, but maybe the extra speed means it trips over itself occasionally.
 
Their latest UI rehash was the last straw to me; I just went to Brave (on a computer, tablet I'm happy with safari)
 
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I switched from Firefox to Brave browser a few weeks ago and it's been trouble free so far.

It's one of the safest browsers with respect to security and tracking. It also blocks a lot of ads.

Very easy transition, even Bookmarks. Works so well that after a couple of weeks I removed Firefox entirely because I knew I wasn't going back.
 
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I switched back to FF 88 as well.
No matter how many tabs I opened I only had one tab box visible at the bottom of my screen. Had to close that one to see the next one. That killed it for me.
 
Have version 89.0.2...

Every so often the window drops down into the taskbar for no reason. Hope it's just the browser and not the computer .
 
JayCeeNC said:
I switched back to FF 88 as well.
No matter how many tabs I opened I only had one tab box visible at the bottom of my screen. Had to close that one to see the next one. That killed it for me.
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Not sure what OS you're using, but on Windows 10 FF 89.0.2 I currently have 12 tabs open. All of them showing in the toolbar. The same behavior as in all recent builds except the shape of the tabs are now squared off rather than the older rounded off corners like file folders.
 
TX-Dennis said:
Not sure what OS you're using, but on Windows 10 FF 89.0.2 I currently have 12 tabs open. All of them showing in the toolbar. The same behavior as in all recent builds except the shape of the tabs are now squared off rather than the older rounded off corners like file folders.
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I'm glad it works for you. Doesn't for me. (Windows 10)
 
wood714 said:
I use Chrome about 95% of the time. Never had a problem.

Never used Edge. I've used Firefox when it had the YouTube downloader in it.
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I refuse to use Chrome, except on my work computer. Google wants its grubby fingers further up in your computer than the average proctologist, and that isn't happening on any machine of mine. Ever looked with CCleaner after you shut down Chrome with the "Clear cookies and site data" control set? There are megabytes of Chrome cache still lurking in your machine. That dog doesn't hunt for me.:(
 
LVSteve said:
Compared to what? Please don't say Chrome.
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I do just fine with Safari (the Mac's native browser). Other than that, there are a number of "alternate" non-mainstream browsers out there. But I'm afraid that the alternative to too many updates, is too few. And with security being a constantly moving target, frequent updates are just the price of admission. I know people who swear by, and at, pretty much every browser out there.

It's pretty much pick your poison and join your tribe.
 
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