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Firefox freezing on certain text-based sites

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Helen.of.Joy
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I have a brand new iMac IOS 11.1 and am using Firefox 84.0.2. All is well except when I visit just ONE site. It is a text-based word generator site. You input certain letters and particular patterns, and all possible words are gathered and displayed. The first query goes smoothly. Results are displayed instantly. But if I immediately enter another combination of letters, sometimes (not always) Firefox freezes. I get the spinning ball of death until I force quit the application. This does not happen with Safari, but I my favourite browser is Firefox and do not want to switch. Could someone please explain why Firefox can't seem to handle this.

I have a brand new iMac IOS 11.1 and am using Firefox 84.0.2. All is well except when I visit just ONE site. It is a text-based word generator site. You input certain letters and particular patterns, and all possible words are gathered and displayed. The first query goes smoothly. Results are displayed instantly. But if I immediately enter another combination of letters, sometimes (not always) Firefox freezes. I get the spinning ball of death until I force quit the application. This does not happen with Safari, but I my favourite browser is Firefox and do not want to switch. Could someone please explain why Firefox can't seem to handle this.