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As the title says I've noticed that in the past day kBin often freezes up when I view a thread (Firefox pops up asking me if I want to stop the tab or not). I use Firefox on EndeavourOS but I didn't have any problems with it for the past 2 weeks.

Is anyone else encountering this/is it a new bug?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully this reaches someone on Endeavour to get as close as possible, but I haven't had issues on Mint Cinnamon

Any particular pages? Just the main page or threads with lots of comments? Do you have any config options on like infinite scroll?

Edit: Oh I missed you did specify when opening a thread. Is it any at all? Could you link one perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like there's the slight possibility you can't reply to this thread, because of aforementioned issue. If true, perhaps posting an issue in the repo or joining the matrix might work better for you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had it happen both on kbin and federated threads. I'll link one when I encounter this again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Itemize what extensions you are running and try creating a vanilla prefix (firefox -P), then testing it there, and use process of elimination to narrow down which one(s) may be the root cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you be more specific? I kind of get what you are saying, but I didn't test extensions until now so it's kind of an alien language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if you aren't running browser extensions (add-ons) in your browser, then that can't be the cause. Sometimes extensions may conflict with the browser and drag performance, so it can be good to get closer to a vanilla state, but sounds like you already are there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for misunderstanding, I should've been more clear: I do use extensions, namely uBlock, Tampermonkey and bitwarden, but I was also using them when everything ran smooth.
What I meant I didn't quite understand was "try creating a vanilla prefix (firefox -P), then testing it there".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can create a new prefix/profile with no extensions in it and use this as a "control" to test whether it works without those. Then, on your normal profile, start by enabling only one extension, then two, etc., to try to drill down to see if it's localized to a particular one.