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Is Fennec nonfunctional for anyone else? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Yes, it is unusable in the latest version.

You can use Install with Options to downgrade to the previous version without losing any data.

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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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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ironfox has been doing the same thing for me recently. For now it seems to be working fine again, but the freezing/not loading has been very sporadic to say the least. Hope it gets figured out and fixed soon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use both and fennec has been the sole culprit for me, ironfox doesn't seem to break like this or a reload would fix the issue, fennec makes me recreate the tab but currently even that isn't working, assumedly because of extensions mentions by commenters above.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    As @tal@lemmy.today reports, it's a known bug. If you disable UBlock and possibly Decentraleyes, then navigate to a page, then re-enable them, navigation should then work normally, at least for a while.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    For me too. The fix I found was to turn off Wi-Fi and (sometimes) cellular, wait for "Address Not Found" or "The connection has timed out", turn on Wi-Fi/ cellular again and reload the page.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What worked for me most of the time was closing the tab, opening a new one and searching the same thing. Not sure whether I close the app in between as well.

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    [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Use Ironfox...

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