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I have a Blackview Tab16 (10" screen), which I bought last year; it was running Firefox quite happily until a couple of months ago. Now when I click on the icon, I get a sort of 'welcome' screen (with some message about a search widget?) for a fraction of a second, then FF closes and I get an error message saying 'Sorry. Firefox had a problem and crashed.' The version of FF is 126.0. I was told to try clearing the cache, but there is nothing there to clear! The tablet is running Android 12 / DoKe OS V3.0.

I have an 8" Blackview tablet which - despite needing to be plugged in to run all the time! - opens & runs Firefox perfectly happily. It's my main browser on my MacBook as well, and will run on my iPhone.

Regular usage of Firefox results in crashes; usually have no more than 4 tabs on, but also crashes even with only one tab on. Using other mobile browsers (Brave, Chrome) with the same or even more level of usage does not result in crashes, leading me to believe the problem is with Firefox.

This problem was already asked previously (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1431267) but has been archived without a solution that worked for me.

Latest crash report:

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bfa85f01-b670-4443-b52c-0c21fca59670 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 39482192 free bytes and 37MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 134217744 byte allocation with 39482192 free bytes and 37MB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456 at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3578) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:120) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:95) at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:156) at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.copyTo(IOStreams.kt:17) at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.copyTo$default(IOStreams.kt:3) at kotlin.io.ByteStreamsKt.readBytes(IOStreams.kt:21) at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetch$1.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:8) at mozilla.components.concept.fetch.Response$Body.useStream(Response.kt:8) at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:72) at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$fetchAndDecode$2.invoke(ImageLoader.kt:13) at kotlinx.coroutines.intrinsics.UndispatchedKt.startUndispatchedOrReturn(Undispatched.kt:16) at kotlinx.coroutines.BuildersKt.withContext(Unknown Source:74) at mozilla.components.support.images.compose.loader.ImageLoaderKt$load$bitmap$1.invokeSuspend(ImageLoader.kt:52) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:9) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:111) at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:4) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:3) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:98) Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [androidx.compose.ui.platform.MotionDurationScaleImpl@f8bcc7a, androidx.compose.runtime.BroadcastFrameClock@72f6c2b, StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@6685888, AndroidUiDispatcher@6975221]

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Phone Details:

Techno Spark 20 Pro (with latest updates downloaded) Android 13 12GB+6GB RAM

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Hopefully this can be fixed.

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Hello,

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When selecting a file for the phone's file manager, the file upload simply not starting.

However, Firefox on iOS doesn't have that issue.

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Tried another browser and it works great.

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I can't remember when this problem started, but the volume dips down for maybe 1-2 seconds shortly after the start of anything with sound, like YouTube videos and MP3s embedded in a website. On the same phone with Chrome, the problem does not happen.

Has anyone experienced this? I made a screen capture that demonstrates the problem, alternating first with Chrome, then with Firefox (then both again) -- https://youtu.be/GB116jauaX4

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