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The 157 update is causing a significant lag to my laptop.

Firefox App responsiveness
jbr replied 3 days ago
konkanavar
konkanavar

Ever since the update to 157 I have been having issues when running firefox. Youtube is non functional on the browser. It is using a large amount of memory (consistently at 41-45% according to the task manager). Gmail takes a long time to load, in fact every page takes a long time to load if at all.

I run it in troubleshooting mode and functionality returns... I don't want to run firefox with all my extensions disabled they are there for a reason.

This update seems to be inherently unstable and is causing issues for lot's of folks.

So just to summarize, the update to 157 has not worked. It is using a disproportional amount of memory, that the previous version did not. It is causing my entire system to downgrade and run significantly slower. Pages will not load properly and I am now using a different browser as a work around.

Essentially it is a huge failure and I wish you would have tested more thoroughly. My experiences are not uncommon... You guys released a garbage upgrade to the browser that has catastrophically under performed.

I do not recollect any update in the past that functioned as poorly as this. Congratulations for completely screwing this up.

When will you guys get this working properly?

Ever since the update to 157 I have been having issues when running firefox. Youtube is non functional on the browser. It is using a large amount of memory (consistently at 41-45% according to the task manager). Gmail takes a long time to load, in fact every page takes a long time to load if at all. I run it in troubleshooting mode and functionality returns... I don't want to run firefox with all my extensions disabled they are there for a reason. This update seems to be inherently unstable and is causing issues for lot's of folks. So just to summarize, the update to 157 has not worked. It is using a disproportional amount of memory, that the previous version did not. It is causing my entire system to downgrade and run significantly slower. Pages will not load properly and I am now using a different browser as a work around. Essentially it is a huge failure and I wish you would have tested more thoroughly. My experiences are not uncommon... You guys released a garbage upgrade to the browser that has catastrophically under performed. I do not recollect any update in the past that functioned as poorly as this. Congratulations for completely screwing this up. When will you guys get this working properly?

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dessertdish
dessertdish
  • Top 25 Contributor

Hello,

The Firefox 157 update did make some compatibility issues. To fix this, go to about:processes, and see which one is taking the most memory/tanking performance. Once you pinpoint which process is causing it, disable that singular process.

jbr
jbr
  • Top 10 Contributor

None of the people here create YouTube deployments or your addons.

You need to check which extension is incompatible. Ghostery or uBO perhaps fighting with YT?

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