Mozilla Firefox, new releases, Add-Ons, tips for customisation

Firefox keeps corrupting itself or my profile, been happening for a week or something now, already completely uninstalled FF, deleted all traces of my profile, then reinstalled FF and imported a backup profile using MozBackup

This works for about a day, then it starts freezing and not loading pages again

Symptoms are pages saying they are loading, but just hang on the loading circle animation, sometimes the whole browser freezes for a while, and after maybe 1 minute everything works again and all pages start to load

Can't figure it out, Chrome is starting to look a more attractive option right now

 

I wondered if it was an addon causing it, so restarted FF in safemode with addons disabled but it did the same thing, unless the addon is corrupting the profile

But yea, I've tried moving to Chrome a few times, and it's always addons that bring me back to FF, Chrome's equivalents just aren't on par with FF's

Mainly the speeddial addon, I use that dozens of times a day and like to have it set up with specific dials in specific locations of the grid, Chrome won't let you do that, they have to be next to each other, and if you move one to another location, it shifts the location of all the tiles inbetween those two you just moved, where in FF it just swaps those two over, and you can have dials with spaces between etc

 

FF/CF seem to be iffy these days, Web sites that out right crash on 1 computer work fine on another pc that is using all the same addons. and almost identical hw. still refuse to use chrome though

 

I might go back a few releases and see if it still happens, maybe they messed something up with this latest build

 

The only reason I'm on firefox is because my passwords are retained between windows installations. Vivaldi (chrome) forces me to type everything again and I cba to rely on cloud **** when everything works just fine right now.

 

I use Lastpass, but MozBackup is a life saver between OS wipes, soon as you hit the desktop you can restore and be back exactly where you were before you wiped

 

I just cut and paste my profile from windows.old Firefox has its own sync which I use for new machines/phone but I just cut and paste because I do it for every other program anyway.

 

I like it, simple, easy to remember

I never have a windows.old, well rarely anyway, I generally backup and clean install unless it's something like RS1>RS2, but now on LTSB for life that won't be a problem, at least for a couple more years

I use Dolphin Sync on my phone to restore bookmarks, but not on Desktop

 

I got fed up with my scrollbars so I hid them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/hidescrollbars/

 

there is reason why I have my FF/CF profile on my HDD and not on my SSD which has my OS on it. all i need to do reinstall FF/CF and point it to my profile and i good to go if I had to reinstall the OS.

And in case of that being screw up, I use FF sync which only syncs my Passwords and bookmarks.

 

Not a bad plan, I'm in the habit of creating fairly regular MozBackup backups now though, and I store them on my HDD so similar thing apart from instead of changing the location of the profile to HDD, I restore from HDD

 

maybe 1 day I will actual have my profiles for FF/CF and Thunderbird on my actual SSD :banana:

 

Well still early days, but it appears downgrading to 52.0.2 has fixed the problem

 

cyberfox 52.1.3 here, I have not use offical build in years now

 

I was using one of them, Waterfox I think but something didn't work, can't remember now but was forced to go back to FF

 

Nightly x64 is pretty good and fast. Give it a shot.

Downside is that it has disabled add ons which aren't explicitly multi process compatible (it can be overridden via about:config) but it has noticeably improved responsiveness.

 

Anyone else getting crashes lately? Like there's some websites I can't enter without crashing.

 

I haven't, which sites are they?

 

http://dagbladet.no/

And this one https://www.prisjakt.no/product.php?p=2940400
If I click on "omtaler"(reviews) it'll just crash.