FireFox 64bit 60.0.1 stinks

[GreyGeek]

I allowed Mozilla to upgrade my firefox (from the repository) to 60.0.1.

It is the MOST UNSTABLE browser I have ever used. It hangs frequently and I have to use the skull & cross bones to kill it, because it won't respond to the mouse. When it hasn't crashed its mouse responses are temperamental. It frequently doesn't allow me to select an entire line in a text box. Starting at one end and dragging the mouse toward the front, the highlighted portion disconnects from the beginning point and pickup halfway down the line, if it stays highlighted at all. Left and right mouse clicks don't always do what you expect of them. Did I mention that it hangs on me?

It just locked up on me. I used S&C to kill it. Trying to run it again I was told that it was still running. The system monitor showed a disconnected firefox thread still in the processes. With it were five "Web" processes. I "End Process" firefox and the web processes unloaded also. While running FireFox on this website only I opened a console and did "netstat -alp | grep firefox > firefox_internet_connections.txt". It showed 7 IP links and 63 STREAM & SEQPACKET sockets to firefox.

Obviously, it will be disappearing from my desktop soon.

[Rod J]

I'm glad I switched to Chrome some time ago as I was unhappy with the changes to Firefox (TabMixPlus was a big loss to me).

I also had other problems with it with weird file navigation behaviour (mouse clicking, etc) in K14.04 (works OK in Plasma 5 I guess).

[Qqmike]

GG: I have to use the skull & cross bones to kill it, because it won't respond to the mouse.

What does S&C refer to? (Up since 2 am here, not sleeping, maybe got a short memory circuit!)

Btw guys, I'm on 14.04 and have FX 60.0.1 and have not noticed anything naughty about its behavior, yet -- hope I am not jinxing myself by posting that positive comment! There are things it does better than Chromium; and there are things that Chromium does better than Firefox. I often keep them both open. Again, all this on K 14.04.

[Bings]

I was using Waterfox but that broke when I updated it. So I'm using FartFox again. Not seeing any problems that you are GreyGeek.

It showed 7 IP links and 63 STREAM & SEQPACKET sockets to firefox.

Why is this bad?

[chimak111]

What does S&C refer to? ...

Maybe "Skull & Crossbones" mentioned earlier in GG's OP. You'll see it if you run xkill in your terminal. The mouse pointer changes to a Skull & Crossbones.

People who have a lot of crashes tend to set up a keyboard shortcut to launch xkill

[dibl]

I ran (as root)

apt update && apt full-upgrade

this morning and noticed that firefox was being updated. Later I took a look at this forum and noticed this thread, so I popped open Firefox to see what was going on. I'm habitually a Chrome user but Qqmike is right, it's good to have both browsers available for the occasional glitchy website. So Firefox is indeed now at 60.0.1, running on a Debian LXQt desktop, kernel 4.16.9, on an older Dell Inspiron with an SSD upgrade, Intel graphics, and i915 driver.

After 15 minutes of fiddling with Firefox on a handful of websites, installing ublock origin, copying text, running videos, etc., I don't see anything amiss with it. I'll try it on my KDE desktop system later.

[SpecialEd]

NO problems here either.

[wizard10000]

Interesting. I just got a new build of FF 60 today, replacing the one that came out in Sid yesterday. Apparently somebody caught the bug

edit: Preferring chrom(ium), I only use FF when Google's browser doesn't work.

[marco07]

On my Kubuntu 18.04 FF was upgraded to 60.0.1 couple of days ago. No problem here so far.

[GregM]

I've got it down on how to keep FF at version 56 and I'm happy with that.
I suppose, in the not too distant future, they will figure out how to make something quit working and force me to update.

[oldgeek]

I run Waterfox. It updated to version 56 recently and runs fine. I haven't tried Firefox 60 yet.

[GreyGeek]

Tried Midori. It's worse.
Thought about going back to FF56 or PaleMoon.
Decided to try Chromium. Working nice, so far, but haven't added my favorite extensions yet, especially the "Mailto:" extension.

[GreyGeek]

I was using Waterfox but that broke when I updated it. So I'm using FartFox again. Not seeing any problems that you are GreyGeek.

Why is this bad?

It may or may not be. I use "whois" to check the IP addresses and see whom they belong too. Most do not belong to the website I am visiting, but are linked to sites that track your web activities.

[wizard10000]

And I got another build of FF60 today. That's three in three days.

mailto in chromium? Looks like there are three extensions with that name https://chrome.google.com/webstore/s...ailto?hl=en-US

[GreyGeek]

I added the simple mailto: because it wasn’t configured to use the common webmail services. It works perfectly with Thunderbird.

Looking for a video download extension. Those at Google’s store block that feature for YouTube.