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My phone is a bit old (Pixel 4a) but it drives me crazy that so many times I type something into Firefox and it just shows a blank screen. Then I have to restart the app or open a new tap and type again. Feel it happens at least 20% of the time. No idea why and its not an internet issue. There is no loading. There is nothing.

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My pixel5 is doing good with Firefox. I credit as blockers for keeping the browser performant

Respectfully: doing well.

Yeah the blockers are awesome. Also having a few greasemonkey scripts to automate login on a few pages that require too many clicks.

Try clean install. Maybe extensions and userscripts are messing with you.

I've tried a few times and tried FF beta but no difference.

I have the same issue quite frequently... If I knew any decent alternative with uBlock (or equivalent) I'd switch on the spot! On a Pixel 6.

I used to have this issue on nightly (not annoying enough to make me consider switching though), but it dissappeared several months ago, haven't seen it since. Are you sure it's still happening

I had the same problem on my 4a. I've since upgraded to a Pixel 8, and I still have the blank screen problem. Notably with a PWA, has to be killed and restarted. This is on Fennec (so FF dev basically). Annoys so much, chromium-based browsers don't have any issue.

Same issue for years, fist on a huawai p30 and now in the Samsung s21. Been so long now that I have accepted it as a feature.

do you still actively see this or is it a behaviour that occured a few months ago? I remember https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1840665

Been getting that too. No idea why. Interestingly, I've experienced it a handful of times on desktop too. 99% of the time it's the Android app doing it though.

Is it possible to dump logs and about:support to create a bug ticket? I'm sure this will be looked at pretty quickly.

Tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home

How do you dump logs?

Looks like you can profile it with remote debugging: https://youtu.be/TxAlQBv6-yg?si=M3oqdmr9fitPnf9t.

I had this happen repeatedly but relatively rarely on a Galaxy A51, and now on a Galaxy A54. I don't browse on my phone much, but it felt like much less than 20% of the time. At least, it was rare enough that I'd always forget it happened until it smacked me in the face again.

Oddly enough I had same experience on an iPhone too, despite it only being an interface wrapper over safari

I haven't seen this problem on a Pixel 4a running Calyxos.

This also happens to me in Chrome on Pixel 4a.

I have not seen this problem on my 4a.

Have the exact same issue on my 1+

In my experience, this only happens when I type in a new address in a tab that is already open with a different website.

When I try to navigate somewhere else, it hangs, looks like it's loading, but gets... stuck?

However, always works with new tab.

Also on Pixel 4a. It's not that old, jesus.

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