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
Yes, it is unusable in the latest version.
You can use Install with Options to downgrade to the previous version without losing any data.
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.
Yup, been that way for like a week now. You can open Fennic, go back to the home screen, and then back to Fennic and it’ll usually work. Quicker than disabling extensions for me at least.
A BR has been opened on Fennic’s repo since the newest update was published, but they’re not super responsive from what I’ve seen.
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.
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.
What works for me consistently is to open a website in Firefox, which I have installed as well. After that, Fennec works again.
Fennec allows you to open about:config on Android. That’s why I use it.
Works in IronFox, too, apparently.
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.
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.
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.
ive been using ironfox , and i havnt seen those issues yet, must not be common.
Same, these issues happening in fennec are what got me to move over to ironfox at long last which has been working perfectly
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.
It was immediately crashing after start for a day for me on GrapheneOS. Fixed it really qickly.
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.
try disabling extensions
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