Anyone else have this issue? I thought maybe it was just my shitty surface pro 3 but it happens on my T530, T460s, and my desktop. I thought maybe it was an extension I had so I uninstalled them all except ublock. Still happening. For now I’ve just switched to librewolf and installed all the extensions I had on Firefox. Works fine and doesn’t keep my CPU at 100% so problem solved I guess, but I’m still curious if anyone else has this issue?

    • just_another_person
      70·
      3 months ago3 months ago

      This will give you a good inkking as to what is happening in the background. We also need to know how you have it installed via rpm pack, or flatpak?

  • GolfNovemberUniform
    60·
    3 months ago

    Sounds like a serious bug. What’s the distro and package format? It might be a single package issue.

  • Octopus1348
    60·
    3 months ago

    Create a new Firefox profile, set it as default, then restart Firefox and see if the problem still persists.

  • DaPorkchop_
    40·
    3 months ago

    I get this sporadically, probably once a week on average. Most of the time it seems to be caused by a specific tab and resolves itself after closing the tab (in my case Slack is the most common culprit).

  • PikaEnglish
    40·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    something similar happens with Debian 12 currently, it’s super obnoxious and has made me seriously reconcider using Firefox. It freezes all Firefox windows, you can close them but it no longer updates the icons as you hover, nor let’s you do anything in Firefox, and if left unchecked will eventually hard crash plasma

  • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    I recently experienced something similar on one of my PCs with an nvidia card (running Fedora Atomic) - turns out it was weirdness with wayland and switching to x11 made it go away.

  • Sentau
    20·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    Please add the version of Firefox to the post so others can be better informed

  • Dariusmiles2123
    10·
    3 months ago

    Is your laptop linked to an external screen? Sometimes, I get the same problem and unplugging/plugging the screen solves the issue.

    • Czele
      10·
      3 months ago

      Sorry I’ve missed the ‘firefox’ part xD.

  • Karna
    10·
    3 months ago

    Whenever you have issue with Firefox, first thing that you should try is ‘Troubleshoot mode’ -

    Firefox Menu > Help > Troubleshoot Mode