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Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin (webiterate.dev)
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That sounds like maybe you have something else set as default browser and instead of Firefox and that something is messaging it up.

I use Firefox exclusively and it works everywhere.

Unless, URLCheck (highly recommended) is somehow fixing this issue. But I don't remember having it before either.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    No, that issue definitely occurs in Firefox Android sometimes. The tab just gets stuck and does nothing. Has been happening for years, in fact, so it's not something new. Might be due to some specific settings, but I like my settings and the problem doesn't pop up too often, so eh.

    Desktop Firefox also gets this sometimes, actually. The tab just doesn't load until I bash β€˜enter’ on the address bar, or create a new tab. Since afaik Firefox uses its Gecko engine on both platforms, the issue could be in the engine rather than the UI.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly I didn't recall anything where things are stuck.

    Are you sure that the issue on Android isn't caused by closing a link and the app opening Firefox in its context?

    If this is such a percentage issue I'd there big open about it?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    It happens within Firefox, without rhyme or reason that I could discern. I think it's more common if I open a link from another app, then switch away from Firefox while the page loads in the background; or when returning to FF and it tries to reload a previously suspended tab. Firefox is allowed to load stuff on my phone in the background even when battery saving is on (which it always is), but I guess FF might get into a fight with the system over available memory, with the system killing one of FF's processes/threads. Wouldn't explain it happening on the desktop, though.

    If this is such a percentage issue I'd there big open about it?

    It happens pretty rarely for me, and I have no idea how it could be reproduced. So, I already barely ever open issues (by principle), and certainly won't report this. Idk about others β€” wouldn't be surprised if there's a bug about this among the many thousands of issues that Mozilla has.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was starting to doubt my memory of this happening in Firefox Android, but I'm happy to report that I've gotten that issue just now. Opened a pic from a Lemmy comment in FF because it wasn't showing in the app, and the tab was sitting there doing nothing. Had to close it and open another one. So you can judge how pressing this problem is for me, by it occurring once in 23 days (likely more) β€” while I was browsing on the phone quite a bit and opening images from Lemmy regularly due to the ISP's shenanigans. But it does happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Interesting. Maybe it is some bug with network interruption during specific stage of loading the page?

    I'm also starting to question myself if I experience it and just do it automatically and not realizing it. Need to pay more attention.

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