I woke up one day and Fennec wouldn’t browse any web page. Like, if I do a search, which goes to DuckDuckGo, I get a loading bar that never goes anywhere. (See screenshot).

If I disable all of my extensions, it’ll work again. Then, if I enable them one by one to try to find the culprit that was making Fennec not work, it doesn’t break! Until it does, randomly. I basically can’t easily reproduce it working or not working.

I switched to IronFox, and installed all the same extensions, and have had no problems for two days.

Extensions:

  • JShelter
  • UBlock Origin
  • Decentraleyes
  • Cookie AutoDelete
  • Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    I had this happen a few times. Usually it works after a few minutes. Stopping and restarting the app didn’t help in my case. Here is hoping the next version will work properly again.

    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, force-closing it didn’t help at all. Other people in the thread are saying it’s a known issue.

      Then again, I’m not sure why I prefer it over at IronFox. I forget what the real differences where when I last looked at them. Iron Fox is offered in the FFUpdater app, but not from F-droid, and Fennec is the opposite.

  • viral.vegabond@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Ironfox has been doing the same thing for me recently. For now it seems to be working fine again, but the freezing/not loading has been very sporadic to say the least. Hope it gets figured out and fixed soon.

    • tpyoman@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I use both and fennec has been the sole culprit for me, ironfox doesn’t seem to break like this or a reload would fix the issue, fennec makes me recreate the tab but currently even that isn’t working, assumedly because of extensions mentions by commenters above.

  • SpicyTaint@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Yup, been that way for like a week now. You can open Fennic, go back to the home screen, and then back to Fennic and it’ll usually work. Quicker than disabling extensions for me at least.

    A BR has been opened on Fennic’s repo since the newest update was published, but they’re not super responsive from what I’ve seen.

  • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    As @tal@lemmy.today reports, it’s a known bug. If you disable UBlock and possibly Decentraleyes, then navigate to a page, then re-enable them, navigation should then work normally, at least for a while.