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Great. Now not only is it refusing to restore tabs after it crashes (even though that’s what my preferences tell it to do), but this morning it came to with total amnesia of every page I’ve ever visited.

[Update Monday morning]

OK, I’ve installed Pale Moon 24.6.0, which seems to be the most recent version for which there’s a Linux tarball. It seems to run quickly so far, but I haven’t done much with it, or opened many tabs.

11 thoughts on “Firefox”

  1. Is it me, or are all computer systems getting progressively worse? I have this idea to collect all of human knowledge…all I need is a place to work with my encyclopedists. I’ll call it Terminus.

  2. FWIW, I changed from Firefox to Palemoon (a Firefox derivative) that uses the same extensions, including NoScript. Palemoon has proven to be fairly stable. When I am accessing my blog or email accounts, I exclusively use Palemoon. From what I gather, the Palemoon technology is not upgrading as fast as Firefox – they adopt new Firefox changes at much slower pace, plus eliminate those that cause issues for users.

    http://www.palemoon.org/

    For just daily browsing and RSS feed reading, I’ve turned to Opera. Seems to never crash but I am not really putting much stress on it. Now that I am used to Opera eccentricities, I actually prefer it – seems faster.

    As a result, I always have both browsers open.

    1. Opera can’t stand up to my usage without crashing. And unfortunately, neither can Chrome. I haven’t found any Fedora packages for Pale Moon, so if I want to use it I’d have to build it.

  3. Rand, is there any chance that Firefox, a plug in, or your OS, auto-updated?

    I’m running it under windows so this might be a useless comparison, but I recall having to make a change in settings to block it from auto-updating (and that an update a few years ago caused similar issues – I had to delete the OS and Firefox cache and reboot to fix it). I block everything from autoupdating, no exceptions, because updates often cause issues. I’m a believer in the “if it works, don’t try to fix it” philosophy. If there’s a needed update, such as a virus definition update or a security patch, I do it manually.

    1. I update everything fairly often, and it is likely that it was a Firefox update that caused this. In order to not update Firefox, I’d have to manually exclude it from the update.

      1. It’s certainly easier in some ways to update everything at once. I stopped because of both security concerns and hassles like the one you’re dealing with. For my situation, my way turned out to be easier in the long run. (although some programs, like Google Earth, were a pain in the neck to make unable to update… or at least stop nagging me to update all the time. A whole new use for selectively blocking addresses in the firewall; stopping the programs from “phoning home”.

        I hope you get it sorted out with a minimum of hassle.

    1. There are reasons to have multiple tabs, even many multiple tabs open in a browser. My loyalty will go to a browser that allows me to do that without bringing my computer to its knees or crashing.

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