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
18 Comments
thuhtoosan@programming.dev · 15 pts · 346d
Yes, it is unusable in the latest version.
You can use Install with Options to downgrade to the previous version without losing any data.
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 345d
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/134
According to this, Firefox Fennec is affected, but Mozilla's official Android Firefox build is not, if someone needs the latest version for some requirement.
SpicyTaint@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 346d
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 346d
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.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 345d
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.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 345d
Fennec allows you to open about:config on Android. That's why I use it.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 345d
Works in IronFox, too, apparently.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 343d
What works for me consistently is to open a website in Firefox, which I have installed as well. After that, Fennec works again.
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 345d
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.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 2 pts · 346d
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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 345d
ive been using ironfox , and i havnt seen those issues yet, must not be common.
ctry21@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 345d
Same, these issues happening in fennec are what got me to move over to ironfox at long last which has been working perfectly
tpyoman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
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.
eleitl@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 345d
It was immediately crashing after start for a day for me on GrapheneOS. Fixed it really qickly.
meekah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
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.
Lyubo@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 345d
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.
glocester@masto.es · -1 pts · 345d
@Quibblekrust
try disabling extensions
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 345d
Do you not see the post text from Mastodon?
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · -3 pts · 345d
Use Ironfox...