Firefox

TLDR: I want to easily have a bunch of tabs somehow synchronized on both my desktop and mobile devices and in different groups. Safari and other iOS browsers haven't worked well for me.

This has actually been a hard problem I've been trying to solve for over 2 years now. Despite having used Firefox as my main browser the whole time, I had relied on Safari to sync tabs between my MBP and iOS devices since the UX for opening desktop tabs in the Firefox mobile app is really clunky: you have to do lots of taps and to get a list of tabs and you can only open one at a time, to open just one tab you have to do the whole dance all over again (this was from last time I tried it months ago, is it any different now?).

The problem with Safari is that lose a whole bunch of tabs can suddenly disappear open on all devices, replacing the pages with blank tabs, you can image how pissed off I was at that. I tried a bunch of iOS browsers, but none of them came close to having a UI as good as Safari in my opinion, and honestly iOS Safari feels much nicer than Firefox. Later I found Orion, but if I have many tabs open, the browser lags really hard on my M1 iPad Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, when all of them except for the current tab are unloaded. I don't get why mobile browsers are generally unpolished compared to desktop ones.

I was opposed to read it later apps like Pocket and Omnivore, because I can't open a bunch of pages quickly and switch between them, like I can with browser tabs, but I think I have to suck it up. I could use the Omnivore iOS app and have a tab open on Firefox desktop, to save page and open them in the browser by default, and it has labels which I can filter pages by, since I like to have pages or tabs in groups like Safari Tab groups.

Having long lists of pages wouldn't lag, or suddenly disappear, and I can mark the pages as read when I'm done with them. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this or have other ideas that might work better.

This has been bothering me long enough that I figured I'd check to see if anyone else is having the same issue, and more importantly, if there's a fix.

Some websites, like Google Earth or various weather radar sites get so slow that they are unusable in Firefox.

When I load the same sites in Edge, it's blazing fast, as I'd expect.

Even Librewolf chugs on these sites.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS: First, thanks for all the input, guys.

I wanted to say that I've tried a fresh FF profile, and the same slowness happens in Google Earth.

I also confirmed that hardware acceleration is enabled.

This problem isn't on all websites. For example, playing www.slowroads.io actually gives a higher framerate on FF than it does on Edge. So it seems to be that certain websites just suck ass.

Some of you have said that Google Earth on FF works perfectly fine... on linux. At least it seems not to be a FF problem. LOL

EDIT: Opera browser is just as smooth as Edge with G Earth.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION?? Ok, so even though I was able to confirm that hardware acceleration was enabled, and the GPU was active while using FF, and the about:support showed that webrender was enabled, I noticed that on about:config the gfx.webrender.all setting was set to false.

So, I enabled it, and tried again. Google Earth seems much smoother (not as good as edge, but better than before), and Tube Archivist no longer seems to freeze while a video is being played.

Could this be the reason for my issues? If so, why was this option set to false by default?

When I start Firefox (Or Librewolf) they start lagging a lot in start but with time they start responding smoothly (in like 3to5 minutes).What could be problem? How to fix that?

Edit : Do not know how but it is working now. Edit2 : Experiencing Same issue again 😞 !!

I found this support forum post but the solution provided doesn't work.

Edit (thanks to @moreeni@lemm.ee for the Stack Exchange link):

Solution - Go to Settings -> Home -> Enable Shortcuts -> Go to a new tab -> Google will be pinned by default, hover over the Google icon -> Click on the 3 dots menu -> Unpin

The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU. That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine in the EU.

It effectively geofences the development team. Browser-makers whose dev teams are located in the US will only be able to work on simulators. While some testing can be done in a simulator, there's no substitute for testing on device – which means developers will have to work within Apple's prescribed geographical boundary.

... as Mozilla put it – to make it "as painful as possible for others to provide competitive alternatives to Safari."

If I disable uBlock, Deezer loads just fine, despite NextDNS and Pi-Hole doing their thing. Anyone know how to troubleshoot or fix things?

built a new extension for the best start page for firefox - hope yall like it!

I find it incredibly disruptive every time this page comes up and it's never completely capable of restoring my tabs. Is there any way to disable it so that it will instead update when I choose to restart Firefox?

I can't find them.

Edit: found it. No idea what the problem was.

Seems like @firefox @mozilla is doing something right

If you got an RTX card and use @firefox you can now get video upscaling on your PC

https://blogs.NVIDIA.com/blog/ai-decoded-rtxvideo-firefox

I'm getting an alert that BitWarden needs a new permission on my devices, but can't figure out how to do that, clicking on the alert simply opens Firefox and I can't find anything in settings or add ons, so how does one do this?

When firefox is not in a maximized window, the resolution of the window is very small, and changing the resolution by hand all the time is annoying, so I want to give it a fixed size. How can I do this?

To disable it in about:config

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled  =  false	
browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled  =  false

To preface:

On the website https://danbooru.donmai.us ever since I ran the firefox profiler for a different issue (I don't think it's related atm, just coincidental) I have been having a serious issue with loading images on all browsers. I've been trying to see if I can figure out the actual cause through firefox to no avail.

What occurs: If I open up an image in another tab, and the image does not finish loading, If I try to open up any other images, or go to the next page of a search, all danbooru sites will hang until the image finisher. This seems to degrade until eventually one will stop loading.

A few times, I've been able to catch this error:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to danbooru.donmai.us.

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

This seems to apply to any image aggregation sites where I can load an image large enough to require loading, as if the image loads instantly, nothing occurs.

What i've been ultimately trying to do is figure out why it's happening. My closest route so far has been that it's in some way related to the TLS handshake, the problem is I can't find anything in the console, network, or debugging that points to the when the image was loaded.

I'm currently running the multiprocess browser console as well, and while it's had a lot of things pop up, none of them refer to the final website of the image, or the script number that shows below it in the src.

So ultimately, I guess what i'm asking:

1. Do you know what would cause websites in the same domain to hang until one finishes loading?

2. What in firefox can see the loading process?

Lastly:

-I have already re-sync'd the system clock

-I have already reset the firefox profile, with a complete deletion and reinstall even

-I tried turning on webGPU, I don't think it's done anything

-I have not tried messing with the TLS settings because apparently SSL 3.0, 1.0, and 1.1 are supposed to be off

-I have done numerous DNS tests including a namespace benchmark test to try to make sure the DNS is okay, and did NS lookup to make sure it was actually being used

-I have used curl to download an image during the hanging, and curl was able to download before the browser completed the process.

-While extensions are active at the moment, the error originally occurred while I was running the firefox profiler for several days in test mode. Meaning it was also occurring for several days while no extensions were active.

-The hanging is isolated to the domain that it's occurring on. I can go to other sites while this is going on. Youtube can run during it, and I can load images elsewhere. A speedtest runs at full speed with no ping or latency.

This isn't entirely related to firefox, as i'm fairly certain other browsers are doing it as well atm, though I am interested in knowing if there's any ways within firefox that I can troubleshoot this.

And yes, trying to google this mostly just brings me to programming sites and nothing on the basic user level.

@mozilla @firefox @thunderbird @Waterfox Out of curiosity, and as a feature request, when do you plan upstream Waterfox into Firefox and Betterbird into Thunderbird. The additional customizibility options of Waterfox would be a great addition to Firefox and the bugfixes and improvements made to Betterbird would work great in Thunderbird. When forks of your products make great strides it is a good idea to consider upstreaming these changes for the betterment of all.