FireFox 137 the latest in a bunch of piggy unusable versions of Firefox. I am ready to QUIT!!! Anyone?

[fan4orr]

I am a very long time user of Firefox. I have used it in every OS I have ever had. Currently, I bailed out of the Windows 11 fiasco and set my parachute on fire. I am on Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS with UbuntoOne extended support until 2032 and have no intention of ever going back to Windows, unless they kidnap my family and force me to.

I am running the latest version of Firefox 137 on an older PC with 4GB of memory. I know that may seem low for memory, but Chrome never has any problems. (Chrome also has the nifty feature of telling you how much memory a tab is using by just hovering over the tab.)

For obvious reasons, I would prefer Mozilla to Google. Unfortunately, Firefox has numerous issues. When I am on You Tube, the performance starts OK, but the longer I am on the site, the more memory gets allocated. And strangely, when I am typing comments on a video, the keyboard response gets slower and slower until eventually I can't even type! Now I KNOW I can close the tab, and sometimes that will fix things. I KNOW I can Close Firefox and restart. But WTF? Why should I have to do that and go through all the two factor authentication, when it is obviously a problem with **bleep**ty memory leaks or some other badly designed process. Is it too much to ask that Mozilla create a browser that doesn't eat your system and gag if you stay on You Tube a few hours??? Are programmers becoming that incompetent these day? Or simply refusing to care about **bleep**ty code?

Frankly, these problems have persisted for so long, through so many versions, and the Mozilla response to "restart the browser" is so infuriating, I am ready to go over to the Dark side and switch permanently to Chrome. Every .0 version of Firefox is worse than the last. Things improve SLIGHTLY when they do the bug fix versions .1 and .2 and sometimes .3. I get lulled into a little complacency, and then they put out another truly **bleep**ty .0 version with "feature upgrades" and screw the pooch again. I am at my wit's end. Thanks for helping me vent. But I really don't want "advice" on how to restart the browser again, or "Clear the cache" or upgrade my system hardware. What I want is for MOZILLA TO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR and for them to start an initiative to make Firefox function with You Tube and other high resource websites AT LEAST AS EFFICIENTLY AS CHROME, and maybe even add that Chrome feature that displays the tab memory usage when you hover over it.  Is it too much to ask that Firefox work as well as Chrome?

[CheapRudy1]

I am right there with you. It has been a slow but steady decline in sites that I can log into with Firefox over the past several months. It is all sites that have financial based services so I assuming it has to do with a security issue. Today was the last straw. I cannot log into my bank. At all. Here is what I get now.

Access Denied

You are unauthorized to access this resource.

Reference ID is: 8710fad9f3

Troubleshooting Steps

1. Reload the home page and try again.

2. Clear your browser cache and try again.

3. Try logging in with a different browser.

4. Try logging in with a different device.

It really is a shame when something good has to be continually dicked with by people with nothing better to do than screw up something that works all in the name of updates.

[BetaOne]

I had the same issue this morning.....again.  Since the Firefox 137 release I have not been able to access most anything, Weather radar sites, Amazon, most banking sites, and just about anything that has ads or ad type information sections on a website.  My other browsers work fine.  I had to resort to using Edge  or Chrome.  It seems to be a widespread issue and for each site that does not load, I send a broken site ticket.  Sites I have used for years that are very secure will not load.  The .01 patch the released made it worse.

[stasklipkov]

hi

[Rangtian]

Firefox 137.0.1 just ate up all the available 26.7G memory on my laptop, which has 32G memory. And I didn't notice that until the GPU driver amdkmdag crashed. I did nothing but watching Youtube video for one hour or two to get this memory leak and crash.

[BetaOne]

I am throwing in the towel.  I have tried removing and reinstalling FF137 and still have the same issues.  So I exported all of my bookmarks and started using Opera or Avast Secure Browser along with Edge and...cough cough...Chrome.  They all work well with my Webroot and Avast One AV I have been using for many years and the Windows Security runs occasionally to check the other two.  The problem is consistent on both Windows 10 and 11 OS. Until they figure out a fix, I'll just check once in a while to see if they fixed whatever it is that is causing sites that ran for years to suddenly stop working.

[Ksenom_O]

Firefox 137.0.2 and still going weak. 😒

[purplebar]

For some reason latest Firefox 137.0.1 eats up 6GB of memory while older version were eating maximum 2GB.

The longer it stays open the more memory it eats up.

Actually I have probably discovered why it eats up memory. It might be because of bitwarden extension which is known to be memory hungry. Multiple users complain about it since 2022. This is not the browser then.

[codycheck]

After updating to 137, pages that somehow collect data via Google take a really long time to load.
All pages in Chrome work normally
For example, IMDB and Youtube cannot be used normally.

There are 2 possibilities
1. The programmers forgot something
2. You have a rat working for Google among you

[davidw69]

I am having similar problems except I am running on a mac.  Everything worked with 136.0.3 but an autoupdate to 137.0.1 resulted in Firefox hanging on startup.  Tried a clean install, turning off all extensions and antivirus with no success.  Downgraded back to 136.0.3 and everything was ok.  Today, I noticed that  137.0.2 was released so tried it.  Same problem.  I hate to change because I have used Firefox for years.  No more though. I do not like the security risks with Chrome though.  Has anyone used the DuckDuckGo browser?