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I am experiencing significant stability issues with Firefox. When I use YouTube, the entire browser frequently hangs (becomes unresponsive) and eventually crashes. This does not happen on all websites, but it is consistent when playing video content on YouTube.

• Symptoms: The browser "stacks" or freezes completely; I cannot click tabs or menus until the browser finally closes/crashes.

• Extensions: I am currently using extensions like SponsorBlock, uBlock origin. I am unsure if this is the cause, but the issue persists during video playback.

• Hardware: I am running this on a laptop with an 16gb 4800mhz RAM, i7 12th Gen processor and an RTX 3070 GPU.

1. Is there a known compatibility issue between current Firefox builds and SponsorBlock or similar video-modifying extensions?

1. Could this be related to hardware acceleration settings with my NVIDIA GPU?

1. What steps should I take to provide crash logs to help identify the root cause?

1 stop popping up stuff everytime i open firefox, thats why i left google in the first place

2 shut up about ai no human with an actual brain cares

3 fix the memory leak that has been a problem for maybe a little over a year now, no extensions installed firefox crashes on a regular basis when not in focus.

Fix these things and ill come back. Till then, im done downloading firefox for my systems and my customers. Its unstable and unusable... In a time where theres barely any other option.

Youre pissing your userbase off.

Sincerely,

Disappointed.

Yesterday Firefox started crashing tabs on load of a handful of websites that are seemingly random, like Twitter and a few shopping site tabs I had open. It wasn't after a system update or anything, it just started happening while Firefox was already open and those tabs had already been open and loaded. I've tried clearing my cache, site data, reinstalling Firefox, and it still does it. Upon further investigation, it seems to be something regarding libfontconfig, and mostly specific to users of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=libfontconfig.so.1

Tabs will crash over and over again. I can barely look at any given page for longer than a minute or two. What happened?? Firefox was never like this before. It just crashed in the middle of me typing this LMAO. Using Brave in the meantime. This is ridiculous.

So for three days now, my firefox constantly crashes. I would be reading a story online or watching a video on Youtube and then it will suddenly freeze. In videos, it'll still play the sound but the screen will freeze. I can't pause or stop it. Then either Firefox crashes and closes or I have to close it for it to stop. Sometimes, when I try opening it again, it still won't open. I used to have 50 tabs open and never ad this issue. After this, I closed all the open tabs, even deactivated a bunch of extensions, run malware detection, and still the issue continues. I don't know what the problem is. I even followed instructions and deactivated hardware acceleration options in Performance. And I have all AI options turned off too. The app also recently was updated.

crash report bp-e455fd8b-e30b-4cdc-811a-346ac0260607

Why do I have to keep signing up with you? What causes this? I"m happy with your service yet periodically, I keep getting transferred to Windows because Mozilla is not responding when I attempt to log on. Then it is necessary to go through the whole process of signing up again. Please bear in mind I am not computer literate. Thank you.

Every time I run Firefox 152.0b10 on Macos Tahoe 26.5.1 Mini it flickers and crashes. Its reporting a webrender compositor error. I made a new installation and it worked but I will have lost all my extensive userChrome/Content customization, as well as hours of time today and more hours to come transferring across and doing things like typing this out and checking versions.

And it flickers awfully on the new installation so is unusable. What should I do? I'm typing this on my Macbook Pro with M3 Pro & Macos Sequoia 15.2, which is not running Tahoe as it bricks all the Adobe software on the laptop. I refuse to rent Photoshop and Premiere for the exhorbitant price Adobe charge, and am transitioning to DaVinci products but not yet done learning.

I have cleared all caches, reset all the hardware acceleration stuff to off or force-disabled, and done everything else suggested by any and every AI agent, like switch off Widevine for a bit then on, or stop UBlock0 running in any way, shape or form. Things change when such things are done but don't work.

Firefox is shutting down all my active tabs automatically WITHOUT asking me. This is regularly happening and wastes a lot of time. Is it due to installing Updates ? I DON"T want ANY updates and I am fully happy with my current version. If this doesn't go away, I will have to delete this browser and move elsewhere.

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this is the latest crash report. had 19 crashes in about 1 hour. i have noticed when i put stress on my pc IE playing a game the crashes are less. i have 64g ram i9 14900k cpu. disabled all extenstions have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox but nothing im doing seems to help.

any help would be great.

I've been using Firefox on Linux since it was Nautilus. Currently running EasyOS Linux Daedalus and Excalibur on different Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny Core i3-8100t boxes and different drives: A good Samsung SSD and two good flashdrives. 32G new RAM installed on each box. I've been using these boxes for over a year. For the last month or so, ever since updating to v. 146 my tabs have been crashing like crazy! I don't normally have more than 10 tabs open at once. But now, as soon as I open a 5th tab it crashes.

I'm running Top to watch CPU and RAM usage. I see nothing unusual. I've rebooted. Disabled all add-ons and run in Troubleshoot mode. Tabs still crash. My only add-ons are uBlock Origin, Temporary Containers and Dark Mode. It happens whether I have hardware acceleration turned on or off. I don't know what else to try. Here are my most recent crash reports. I hope you can figure out the problem. Thank you so much!

Submitted Crash Reports Report ID Date Submitted bp-570147ea-4ab1-4543-828a-d5b7d0260202 2/2/26, 12:04 PM View bp-6422cca3-a458-4b68-9d70-e4acc0260202 2/2/26, 12:00 PM View bp-6be58295-46a1-411d-a241-3f85b0260202 2/2/26, 2:52 AM View bp-afa98aeb-f15f-418b-abe5-06da80260202 2/1/26, 10:03 PM View bp-9c7632d5-db44-47e3-babf-a2bd70260202 2/1/26, 8:28 PM View bp-95d245df-f31d-4512-80bd-f0d180260202 2/1/26, 8:18 PM View bp-85752e77-2bb1-4f13-a2b5-68fdb0260202 2/1/26, 7:24 PM View bp-ae5d263d-608b-485e-867e-2aa190260202 2/1/26, 7:21 PM View bp-9efef3a5-b1ef-4279-b055-fa4760260202 2/1/26, 7:00 PM View bp-5b05d78e-26d2-4896-bbba-bea6a0260202 2/1/26, 6:58 PM View bp-acbd8424-5545-4e40-afbb-93ca90260201 2/1/26, 12:33 PM View bp-1415051a-9824-44d7-8f87-8fd270260124 1/24/26, 8:47 AM View bp-9c50b2a5-27a7-45f6-a65c-e45070260124 1/24/26, 8:47 AM View bp-28e5e55f-952f-45a9-9c99-44e300260124 1/23/26, 11:37 PM View bp-3b509a00-0a8f-4a67-94ec-fad500260124 1/23/26, 11:37 PM View bp-65b6d54d-cbf7-4045-b189-019fb0260124 1/23/26, 11:23 PM View bp-a5e110b3-6d7d-4aa4-b8a7-439f10260124 1/23/26, 9:32 PM View bp-d74bf5ce-fdcd-41e4-b2be-6ed990260124 1/23/26, 9:12 PM View bp-cebf5062-d3aa-4653-9d64-2ad0a0260124 1/23/26, 6:57 PM View bp-1bcd2f2e-2136-412b-8919-ed96c0260123 1/23/26, 5:54 PM View bp-50d66365-399c-464a-b6f4-8a3230260123 1/23/26, 5:32 PM View bp-95b5ab2b-35d4-4867-8f33-ba1b10260123 1/23/26, 5:26 PM View bp-b7c48b83-02cd-435f-b466-dab650260123 1/23/26, 5:26 PM View bp-1eccdf1e-184f-4cd8-8e1f-1d6cb0260123 1/23/26, 3:33 PM View bp-22b3fe80-9420-403b-84a4-4840c0260123 1/23/26, 12:26 PM View bp-aa6baadc-fa01-4c42-90d5-5d4120260202 2/2/26, 12:07 PM View bp-9cf8b3be-8be4-4fd2-a812-444540260202 2/2/26, 12:07 PM View bp-22f8081d-7052-4962-a699-66b600260202 2/2/26, 12:07 PM View

Firefox has been crashing several times an hour for multiple days. I have tried:

Changing/Upgrading RAM Reinstalling Firefox Resetting Firefox Reinstalling Windows Updating Drivers

Every time I make Firefox full-screen, it immediately crashes and shuts down. I have restarted the computer, uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, but it still doesn't work.

I believe this problem is caused by a false crash recovery loop, every time I open firefox it'll close again and then give me an annoying red striped address bar. I'm sure its not my extensions because I only have Ublock Origin installed.

bp-9332d102-b69b-4e95-bdca-6398e0250718 bp-7a10d4a4-14ac-4856-b512-892750250718

Hello Just reinstalled windows, new browser, frequent crashes while downloading big files from googledisc What should i check?

NB - For the past half a year I have to sometimes right click to interact with them, anyway

Effectively, I will interact with the extension at the most basic, normal level on something that has interactive elements like a dropdown menu, or basic options.

I will click / right click on the icon and the highlight will appear, then that's it ... the browser then crashes and does not recover. :(

What's worse is that I have to Force Quit and when I restart there is no crash report to send to Moz.

I am just wondering if other Linux users have experienced similar issues.

The attached image is taken at the moment before the 'Force Quit' dialogue opens up in Debian 12 Gnome (Wayland) ...

I have Hardware Acceleration on.

I am about to start testing with it off, but I work from the browser, and do not want performance compromises. So that is (at best) a work-around, and certainly is not a fix.

I'm on version 147.0.2 (64-bit) which would appear to be from the Mozilla Firefox Debian Package mozilla-deb - 1.0 install/repo/whatever ... and the PC specs are: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10850H CPU @ 2.70GHz Memory: 32705MB (11893MB used) Resolution: 7680x2358 pixels OpenGL Renderer: Quadro RTX 3000/PCIe/SSE2

These are my media. prefs ... but ... I doubt that it is relevant: media.ffmpeg.allow-openh264 true media.ffmpeg.customized-buffer-allocation true media.ffmpeg.disable-software-fallback false media.ffmpeg.enabled true media.ffmpeg.encoder.cpu-used 7 media.ffmpeg.encoder.enabled true media.ffmpeg.encoder.quantizer-max 35 media.ffmpeg.encoder.quantizer-min 10 media.ffmpeg.vaapi.force-surface-zero-copy 2

Firefox began crashing a few days ago and has crashed during each log in and use today. Most recently trying to download and print documents. I have disabled all extensions, have text file of the Third=Party modules and Submitted Crash Reports.

When I close a video site tab, Firefox freezes and becomes unresponsive. After restarting Firefox from a force quit, I sometimes see a message like: “Bookmarks may not be visible or things may not look normal. Another instance of Firefox is running.” (I don’t remember the exact wording.) In that case, my bookmarks look like they are missing. If I close Firefox again and restart it, the bookmarks reappear, but I am logged out of every site and have to add all my accounts again from the beginning.

This means I have to log back into every single account again, like YouTube and others, which is very inconvenient.

I’ve been using Firefox for over 10 years, and I’ve never experienced this problem before. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it occurs periodically — sometimes every few days, sometimes every few weeks. This never used to happen in the past.

Please, I really need help with this issue. If I back up my cookies beforehand, would restoring them after such a crash bring everything back to normal?

I have been getting this error for about a week - absolutelyu no changes have been made to my usual use of the PC and browser. There may have been Firefox/Windows updates installed. I'm not doing anything different to the usual work I do.

I have tried using a new Firefox profile with no cached info carried over, this doesn't solve the problem. I have no extensions or add ons. I do run Avast, but haven't had this problem before.

Crash report: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/1fe71926-ad8e-4592-b103-9874f0250722#tab-annotations

NB: I do not usually get the opportunity to submit a crash report when these crashes happen.