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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.293s | source
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Shank ◴[02 Sep 25 12:44 UTC] No.45102381[source]▶
Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining features.
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zubiaur ◴[02 Sep 25 13:37 UTC] No.45102942[source]▶
I've used firefox for 15+ years, but it starting to bug me too much. Memory issues, forced restarts that block navigation (wth!), clutter all around, having to disable sponsored crap, and random incompatibilities are starting to take a toll. I've been falling back to Edge for crying out loud.
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1. Izkata ◴[02 Sep 25 14:41 UTC] No.45103751[source]▶
> forced restarts that block navigation (wth!)

From what I understand, this is because the OS package manager changed some of Firefox's files in a background update (Ubuntu does this through unattended-upgrades), and Firefox's built-in updater doesn't have this problem.