version 137.0.2 (64 bits), Windows 11 sometimes become unstable, many instances, hang and freeze

[Chuck_Bee]

Firefox version 137.0.2 (64 bits), Windows 11 sometimes becomes unstable, many instances are opened in task manager, it hangs and freeze, making Windows 11 also freeze.

It happens 3 times this week.

Firefox is my favorite Browser,

Pretty please, Make Firefox Great and Stable Again !

System info:

Nom de l'appareil ASUS-VIVO-PRO-17
Processeur Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz
Mémoire RAM installée 8,00 Go (7,85 Go utilisable)
Type du système Système d’exploitation 64 bits, processeur x64

Windows 11 Édition Famille
Version 24H2
Installé le ‎2025-‎02-‎16
Build du système d’exploitation 26100.3775
Expérience Pack d’expérience de fonctionnalités Windows 1000.26100.66.0

[earthtoben]

Ive got the same issue with linux mint. im not sure what triggers it but bloated sites like aliexpress suddenly freeze firefox. it offers the kill the process but if I choose to wait and give it a few minutes the browser functionality usually returns; sometimes im not so patient.

mint:~$ inxi -Fxxxzr
System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-57-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
    clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z390 Phantom Gaming 4
    serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: P4.30 date: 08/07/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_26 model: Logitech MX Master 3S serial: <filter>
    charge: 60% status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i5-9400F bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Coffee Lake rev: D cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB
    L3: 9 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4100 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 bogomips: 34798
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: nvidia v: 535.183.01 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none off: DP-4,DP-5 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:21c4 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Microdia Dual Mode Camera (8006 VGA) driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.2:48
    chip-ID: 0c45:8006 class-ID: 0301
  Device-3: Anker PowerConf C200
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.4:50 chip-ID: 291a:3369
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
    loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.00x11.26")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.55")
  Monitor-1: DP-4.1.8 pos: right res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: DP-4.8 pos: primary,left res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
    drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
    inactive: gbm,wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 535.183.01
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
    SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.3:49 chip-ID: 0c76:161e class-ID: 0300
  Device-4: Anker PowerConf C200
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.4:50 chip-ID: 291a:3369
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-57-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bc class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: N/A pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961
    class-ID: 0280
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: TP-Link Bluetooth USB Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-13:5 chip-ID: 2357:0604
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10 sub-v: d922 hci-v: 10 rev: dfc6 class-ID: 7c0104
  Device-2: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:3 chip-ID: 0e8d:7961 class-ID: e001
    serial: <filter>
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
    sub-v: 2402 hci-v: 11 rev: 1911 class-ID: 7c0104
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 4020
    bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
  Supported mdraid levels: raid0 raid1 raid6 raid5 raid4 raid10
  Device-1: md126 type: mdraid level: raid-0 status: active size: 10.92 TiB
  Info: report: N/A blocks: 11721039872 chunk-size: 64k
  Components: Online: 0: sdc 1: sdb
  Device-2: md127 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive size: N/A
  Info: report: N/A blocks: 5296 chunk-size: N/A
  Components: Online: N/A Spare: 0: sdc 1: sdb
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 42.77 TiB used: 24.24 TiB (56.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Fanxiang model: S500Pro 1TB size: 953.87 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: SN12109
    temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0001
    scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST6000VN0033-2EE110 size: 5.46 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: SC60
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST6000VN0033-2EE110 size: 5.46 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: SC60
  ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: ST12000NM000J-2TY103 size: 21.83 TiB
    type: USB rev: 3.1 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    scheme: GPT
  ID-6: /dev/sde vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EDBZ-11B0ZA0
    size: 7.28 TiB type: USB rev: 3.1 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 tech: HDD rpm: 7200
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1031 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 703.09 GiB used: 342.6 GiB (48.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 32.5 MiB (33.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 1.08 GiB (54.1%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C pch: 63.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
    temp: 50 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: 3044 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3015 pm: flatpak pkgs: 29
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com wilma main upstream import backport
    2: deb https://mirror.it.ubc.ca/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb https://mirror.it.ubc.ca/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb https://mirror.it.ubc.ca/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slack.list
    1: deb https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/ jessie main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
    2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 6.18 GiB (39.8%)
  Processes: 341 Power: uptime: 12d 9h 14m states: freeze,mem,disk
    suspend: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: gnome-terminal
    inxi: 3.3.34

[TorontoGooner]

I concurs. Firefox build 137.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 11 is a disaster:

• Startup with 1.2 GB of RAM, one tab open, and all add-ons disabled
• Makes my PC very slow even for other apps, as it's using up a lot of system resources
• I did all the usual, clearing cache, disabling all extensions and themes, and it's still have the same behaviour

Need a very quick update. I'm using Edge for now, until there's a fix for FireFox

[Itek]

I confirm, version 137.0.2 is a disaster. It has already cleared the settings a dozen or so times. After restarting, all plugins, settings, bookmarks, synchronization, etc. have to be configured again. And this has happened several times in the last few days.

[tate]

Yes this version is worst

[ydeletrain]

Last week, Firefox has been automatically upgraded to version 137.0.2 (64 bit) on my Win 11 business laptop. Since that moment indeed, browsing has almost become impossible: it is awfully slow and CPU intensive. Refreshing Firefox and clearing the cookies/data cache did not help...

[nawan]

Any applications received free contact for friends 

[nawan]

BaDoo ..and next  meetme. Next

[FFR7216]

Firefox locks up on general pages and Youtube. A video will start playing stop and remain locked. Try using ?Vivaldi and it works fine hard to blame the PC at that point.

[seedennisgo]

Firefox 154.0 is so bad it opens 47 instances in windows 11 pro.   Pretty darn useless browser, memory hog, and slow.

Firefox just gets worse and worse.  

Firefox programmers just don't get it.

Time to switch to real browser, Edge.  Made by developer of windows 11 and works faster and better.