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> Firefox is a good browser

Increasingly it isn’t. It’s crashing 2 or 3 times a day for me now, and video conferencing is barely usable.

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Hasn't crashed for me once and I use it daily.

Been crashing for me and friends for about a week now, mostly on youtube

That's on YouTube. It doesn't work well on anything now, and hasn't for a long, long while.

Works well on chrome and android. I've never had issues

Blame Youtube for that. It is very much in Google's interest to have Youtube misbehave on non-Google browsers.

No website should be able to crash a good web browser. It's totally a Firefox failure.

Google has been caught red-handed causing deliberate issues for non-Chrome browsers. Try changing the browser-agent and see if you still have issues.

Firefox and Chrome use the same agent.

Is that tab crashes or whole browser crash? YouTube on Firefox appear to trigger memory leaks of some sort. I get routine tab crashes for that reason too, but not as much browser crashes.

Tab crashes sometimes, other times my browser gets slow and I restart the whole thing

I use Firefox exclusively. Crashes:

  Report ID                                Date Submitted
  bp-5587943e-af6f-47c2-a76c-085760251104  2025-11-03T16:18-08:00
  bp-a96400f2-ce05-46df-a842-d7c960251102  2025-11-01T17:18-07:00
  bp-917e4083-c1d6-492a-b730-61dd70251028  2025-10-28T10:59-07:00
  bp-6556dab8-37ed-4a6e-9aab-965c70251021  2025-10-21T09:46-07:00
  bp-b706c918-4851-4006-95ff-a97a70251008  2025-10-07T21:07-07:00
  bp-769d1eee-2154-4336-a448-7343e0251001  2025-10-01T11:12-07:00
  bp-e8720d2c-bd70-4e20-ac97-7b81f0250926  2025-09-26T10:31-07:00
  bp-086eb3f5-0507-4a0c-8482-b4d890250916  2025-09-16T11:36-07:00
  bp-2aeacd1a-2bd3-4bdb-a748-a3d080250827  2025-08-27T11:10-07:00
  bp-5528185d-592b-486a-922e-e52bc0250821  2025-08-21T14:23-07:00
  bp-1e06d027-b690-45b4-b507-d11e70250815  2025-08-15T15:59-07:00
  bp-d0ecb20a-9a39-459d-b3bf-446df0250807  2025-08-06T20:21-07:00
  bp-208cc026-e144-46e7-a891-aaddb0250804  2025-08-04T08:50-07:00

I've completely avoided Chrome/Edge in the browser wars. I went from Netscape to IE to Firefox and stayed there. I was using it before and after its notorious changes to WebExtensions API breaking many plugins in 2017.

I don't have any crashing issues with it.

I even remember the great "speed test" wars where pages like Lifehacker were measuring how long pages took to load and declared this or that browser the winner for that year.

That being said, the direction their privacy policy is going is concerning and giving me reason to eye alternatives. But from a technical standpoint it's solid on my end.

It’s my primary browser on every device, I use Windows, Linux, and Apple devices daily. I can’t remember the last time it crashed (if ever). I also use a ton of extensions, some of which are a little sketchy (devlopment-wise, nothing morally questionable). Still, no technical issues at all. The behavior of Mozilla, on the other hand, I take plenty of issue with.

Edit: correcting autocorrect.

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