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The number of tab crashes in Firefox is way higher than it ever should be. I still use it but it’s def not as stable as the chrome stuff.

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What are you using that makes it crash, virtually never happens to me.

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For me Firefox crashes all the time in normal use. I am talking minimum twice a day. It also has this weird problem where it will pin one thread to 100% and lock up the whole browser when downloading files. I also had to disable video hardware acceleration or else Twitch crashes every 5-10 minutes but luckily my CPU is so strong that it’s not too big of a deal to do software decoding.

I still use it out of principle but it has been a way worse experience than Chromium ever was for me.

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Yeah…I’m gonna say you have something that isn’t playing well with Firefox. Extensions, hardware…. I’ve been using Firefox for years now across multiple OS’s and hardware and I’ve never had anything like this happen to me

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what os/hardware? I too never have an issue but im talking a pc. Is your experience with android?

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hardly any issues here, either. and we abuse tf out of firefox… 300+ tabs? stay open for days on end? multiple addons? on c2d-era desktops? no problem.

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3 points

No idea. Nothing crazy. Twitch is one that’s fairly regular but it happens seemingly randomly with normal browsing. It hasn’t happened on mobile as far as I remember.

I send in each crash report so hopefully they’ll be able to sort it out.

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For me I had to disable video hardware acceleration (just video, not all acceleration) for Twitch to stop crashing all the time.

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I haven’t seen that happen in possibly two years, let alone regularly.

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I use Firefox all day on both Mac and Windows and this rarely happens. It does seem to happen on Linux for me sometimes though.

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Tab crashes with ublock enabled or without?

If without, it’s probably ads/trackers crashing the tab.

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