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As of a few days ago (potentially coinciding with the most recent update?) I've had several websites become varying degrees of unresponsive when using Firefox while being connected to a VPN (Nord, in this case).

Some sites will load but then get throttled--i.e. YouTube will load and (usually) populate thumbnails, but clicking on a video will result in the video instantly dropping to its lowest available resolution, playing for a few seconds, and then stalling. Interestingly(?) if I try to watch a live stream, chat will be fully functional but the video will be unable to load. Other sites will load but then very quickly stop responding at all. Others are straight up just not loading period, while many others have no issues at all.

I've cleared my cache, deleted cookies for the affected sites, tried Firefox in a private window, tried Firefox with no extensions, and reinstalled both Nord and Firefox to no avail. All of the affected sites are fully functional so long as I'm not connected to a VPN, and are also fully functional on other browsers, even while connected to a VPN. All other non-browser related applications that require the internet are also unaffected, and my internet speeds in general aren't showing any issues.

I've been unable to find any other chatter about this anywhere, and I unfortunately don't have any other devices available to try and replicate the issues. I would not be surprised if it was one of those wonderful Me Exclusive DNS issues or something, but figured it was worth throwing out there.

ANNOYING!! I am unable to reach USA TODAY puzzles.

Window turns black with rotating arrow. I do not want to give in to BING, but I am able to work the puzzles when I use it.

I use Win 11 and normally use DUCK DUCK GO search

firefox 138.0.1 is eating up memory, specifically;

-contentproc -isforbrowser -prefshandle

theres over 20 of them requiring 200mb each

please tell me how to turn this off

thx

Firefox consuming too much Memory, ranging from 1800 MB up to 2000 MB, causing my other programs (most notably Corel WordPerfect) to constantly crash. How do we resolve this?

I delete all the old bookmarks that come up and restart and they come up again or Firefox completely freezes my computer. I tried to Refresh Firefox and that worked UNTIL I signed out and signed back in again. Then I get dozens of sites trying to open and freezing again.

Recently, after two Firefox updates, there are changes on my home page.

1. I only get the top bar and not a full page. I have to click on the green circle with the enlarge icon to get a full page.

2. No longer can access multiple pages on the home screen so cannot cut/paste or transfer and drop info onto different pages.

While I have Firefox as a browser, my search is usually done by google.

How can these problems be fixed.

Thank you.

I'm debugging some web sites, and I often need to reload a page to see if a change I made on the server works correctly. On iPads and Android devices, this doesn't seem possible. Yes, there are the circular-arrow buttons, but they only work with Firefox (and Chrome;-) on my MacOS or my linux server, but not on my iPads or Android gadgets. They act like they're doing something, but the page on their screen doesn't change. (With FF or Chrome on the "real" computers, it does change). The only advice I find online is to use CTL-R or something similar but those "devices" don't have CTL buttons. Nothing else I guess at works, either.

When I ask online, I get replies that work for linux, MacOS or Windows, but clearly saying "iPad or Android doesn't help; the answers don't apply to those systems.

Am I missing something? Web developers need ways debug their code or html or whatever they're working on, and this requires checking how it works on the actual users' screens.

After letting Firefox idle for a bit (like 5 seconds) and nothing playing on the screen, when I come back, it causes screen stuttering for my whole desktop. Disabling hardware hardware acceleration doesn't help much.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-arch1-1 Display (CMN1521): 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz in 15" [Built-in] WM: Hyprland 0.49.0 (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H (20) @ 4.70 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]

A major bug unfortunately means that Firefox cannot open in full screen anymore. I have tried restarting it more than a dozen times, but it still doesn't work. Please solve this as soon as possible; I am begging you, I’m on my knees for the developers.

You guys do an update. Suddenly I can't open any sites. Top of the tab, a little set of dots go side to side foreverrrrrr. Do not, I repeat, do not ask me, "are you doing this, or are you doing that"......that's not a solution.

It's bad enough I have to use another browser to read FOX NEWS, cause your page refreshes non-stop.....

Oh and I used clear history, and my sites all want me to relog back in. Again, do not tell me to unclick cookies and stuff....

When using firefox, and only when using firefox, I experience quite a lot of lag when using "google docs" (https://docs.google.com) and only when using "google docs", eg. this does not apply to, say, MS Word or google presentations.

Like I said this only applies to firefox, meaning google chrome and microsoft edge both work fine.

Here are some of the troubleshooting steps I've tried, without success:

  Launching in troubleshooting mode

  Disabling 0-RTT

  Disabling hardware acceleration

These issues do not appear on my machine at home, which also uses firefox, that however is a different version of Windows, an AMD cpu and a dedicated GPU instead of integrated, so idk if that narrows it down even one bit...

The computer on which the issues appear on is a HP Spectre x360 14, which if you don't want to search it up means I have 32gb of RAM @ ~7500MT/s, and an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H as my CPU.

I'd love to keep using firefox without having to fire up chrome every time i need to write/edit a document, which, as a student, is quite often...

Thanks a lot!

He said its down to some update which for some reason I dont have but in the attached image, he is able to add his own wallpaper in nightly but I am not for some reason. Would love some support

From the last two Firefox updates, I no longer can move sites screens around on my Mac Air laptop. Only one page at a time shows up and consumes the screen. I am no longer able to copy and past and move info to another screen. A couple of weeks agom I cleared my cache but not sure that had anything to do with it. Please suggest solutions. Is there an add on or something that needs adjusting?

Thank you.