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I keep having problems with Firefox hanging or disconnecting. I have followed all the steps in the [Hanging] page, and I still have to shut it down and restart it often, sometimes as much as several times a day. I also frequently have to force quit the browser, or I get a message saying "Firefox is open, but not responding" when I try to restart it.

Dear Mozilla Firefox Support Team,

I have been a loyal Firefox user for many years because I have always appreciated its speed, privacy, and reliability. However, I have noticed that Firefox has become slower over time, and I am disappointed with its current performance.

The browser feels increasingly sluggish during everyday use. One of the biggest issues I experience is with YouTube, where videos often do not play as smoothly as they should. I also notice that Firefox consumes a significant amount of RAM, even when only a few tabs are open, which affects the overall performance of my computer.

I sincerely hope the Firefox team will prioritize performance optimization in upcoming updates. Many users, including me, want a browser that is fast, lightweight, responsive, and efficient with system resources. Speed and smooth performance are some of the main reasons people choose a browser, and I would love to see Firefox become the quickest browser again.

Please continue improving memory management, reduce unnecessary resource usage, and optimize YouTube and other modern websites for a smoother browsing experience.

Thank you for your hard work and for listening to user feedback. I hope future releases will focus on making Firefox faster, lighter, and more responsive.

After updating to Firefox 153.0.1 on my 2026 MacBook Pro Silicon running Tahoe 26.5.2, my Firefox sidebar refuses to open, either by toggling the menu bookmark sidebar icon or pressing the shortcut keys.

Добрый день. Сегодня обновился у меня браузер до последней версии и перестал нормально открывать странички сайтов открывает и через время зависает почините пожалуйста скрин смотрите вот так все зависает и не отвисает

The new video and background feature for the Android phones where the little icon comes up in the top seems to be using up an enormous amount of memory because when I try to switch between things I can't it just delays so long I try to shut it off and it won't shut off right away it takes like 2-3 minutes unless I go in and manually Force shut it something you need to look into the future

When firefox is loaded and as high as 13 can load. If go to task master and search for firefox it shows 13. If I try to delete 1 file all are deleted. If I delete firefox and try to add it again it says I already have firefox loaded.

I am a user and not good at using all sort of commands etc

An 8 second delay when I open Firefox for the first time.. Once it has been opened once, it reopens immediately when required. The problem has been present since I installed Linux Mint 9 months ago, Linux Mint 22.2 then, since upgraded to 22.3 Zena. I can live with it, but it is very frustrating! I have tried the obvious things like removing extensions, but I suspect it is a "Linux" connectivity problem rather than a "Mozilla" problem.

I’m experiencing a strange issue on Firefox where a separate blank/dark window briefly appears over the browser while I’m browsing, then disappears.

The window appears to have the Firefox icon in the top-left and what looks like a Firefox tab/address-bar interface, but there is no visible text or error message.

It happens randomly while Firefox is open, including while watching YouTube. It does not appear when Firefox is closed.

Troubleshooting already performed:

• Windows 11 cloud reinstall using Remove everything
• New Microsoft account
• Defender Offline scan clean
• Multiple malware scanners clean
• Malwarebytes Premium installed
• uBlock Origin (only extension i use) removed/tested, but the issue remained

I took a picture showing the window appearing. Is this a known Firefox issue, background Firefox process, or something else?

I'm experiencing continuous screen blackouts or glitches. These are unaffected by the site I'm on and only occur for Firefox browser. When I switch a tab or click a button the browser blacks out and becomes unresponsive then comes back on after a few seconds. This happens repeatedly. Clearing the cache, running a repair, and uninstalling / reinstalling the app have had no affect on it.

I don't know when it exactly happend but arround 3 months ago my Firefox is on the verge of dying anytime i open a new TAB it takes about a min to be funktional again which is a pain!

before that time Firefox was quick never hade these problems before! A friend of mine has the exact same problem as i do.

honestly will not read the awnser on this post but i just want to make sure its on the Board

Ever since the latest update i've noticed my firefox browser after using it for a while starts eating up all the ram until my computer freezes and needs to restart, i've heard this issue happen to others too but i am wondering if there are any ways to prevent it or will there be any updates to fix it?

I use my firefox on bazzite and have nothing else running in the background, after a while i watch the stats in my task manager and i see firefox using over 10GB of ram and climbing and have to shut it down before it freezes my pc

(can't show any screenshots because if i do then my pc would probably crash when trying to SS it while it has its problem)

Hi Mozilla team,

I’d like to report a serious issue with Firefox lately. The browser has been performing very poorly and frequently becomes “Not Responding.” In many cases, websites fail to load properly or get stuck indefinitely, even though my internet connection is working normally.

I’m experiencing these issues on the latest version of Windows 11 with the latest version of Firefox. This has become quite frustrating and significantly affects my daily browsing experience.

I hope the Firefox team can investigate these stability and website-loading issues and provide a fix soon. Firefox used to be much more reliable, but recently the overall experience has been very disappointing.

Thank you.

starting about a month ago, my Firefox browser has become very slow. Sometimes now when I click a link (this happens about every 4-5 links) the spinning wheel of death appears and the browser doesn't respond. I have to force-quit

when I click on my AOL mail in a few seconds it freezes my computer, if on chrome it works fine, had computer we dune $155 but still the same. this dose the same thing on my lap top. all other sites work fine till I click on AOL mail.......

Every time I search for something my letters are duplicating weirdly, like "test" becomes "testes"?? Ive updated the app, cleared cache, switched keyboards, no fix. It only happens with the first word or two of the sentence, and it's getting really annoying especially when I need to make a quick search. More examples are " what" becoming "whatat" or "how to" becoming "how toto"