I woke up one day and Fennec wouldn't browse any web page. Like, if I do a search, which goes to DuckDuckGo, I get a loading bar that never goes anywhere. (See screenshot).

If I disable all of my extensions, it'll work again. Then, if I enable them one by one to try to find the culprit that was making Fennec not work, it doesn't break! Until it does, randomly. I basically can't easily reproduce it working or not working.

I switched to IronFox, and installed all the same extensions, and have had no problems for two days.

Extensions:

  • JShelter
  • UBlock Origin
  • Decentraleyes
  • Cookie AutoDelete
  • Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
Screenshot of Fennec not loading DuckDuckGo
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had this happen a few times. Usually it works after a few minutes. Stopping and restarting the app didn't help in my case. Here is hoping the next version will work properly again.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Yeah, force-closing it didn't help at all. Other people in the thread are saying it's a known issue.

    Then again, I'm not sure why I prefer it over at IronFox. I forget what the real differences were when I last looked at them. IronFox is offered in the FFUpdater app, but not from F-droid, and Fennec is the opposite.

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