There’s three main things I’ve noticed. These things only started happening after Mozilla’s change in leadership. While they have announced more features since then, I feel like the quality control has gone down a bit.

  1. Even with the sidebar disabled, the sidebar will show on the side of the screen for half a second after launching Firefox
  2. Sometimes, the “x” buttons on tabs will stop working. I have to middle-click the window to close it or close that window and open a new one
  3. The AI popup often gets in the way when selecting text. I think it would be nicer to have it show up in the right click menu after selecting text. I disabled the AI so it won’t show up since I never really used it anyways.
  • Valso@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    These sound like Spyware problems, not Firefox. I’m using FF for years on Linux and the browser has never been better and faster. Not a single of these problems!

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      2·
      9 days ago

      Wayland-only even, but still affects many people of course. Important from that thread:

      a workaround that doesn’t require restart is dragging a tab around.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    10 days ago

    Tbh, I don’t use actual Firefox often any more it’s usually forks, and I’m not hyper worried about updating them as soon as a new version rolls out, I’m fine waiting a few weeks.

    But I have noticed the sidebar thing on my laptop. Not sure which version it’s on, but it can’t have been much more than two weeks since I updated Firefox on it, since that’s when I did a version update to mint. Maybe three weeks at most.

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 days ago

    When the second issue happens, does the reload button & address bar also no longer work? Then I have the same issue, it’s pretty annoying. It can be fixed by pulling the tab out into a separate window & merging it back into the previous one, but still very annoying.

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 days ago
    1. You need to disabled the sidebar in settings. Settings > General > Browser layout > Untick show sidebar.

    Havent notice for question 2 and i disabled AI in firefox.

  • lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Not as severe; however, had a memory leak with dev tools open the other day that crashed the browser pretty quick… also got into a situation where youtube music was open in a tab and that tab ‘froze’ even though the music was playing, couldn’t move it or close it or switch to it.