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Hope this release somehow magically fixes an ongoing issue in Windows 10 I've had with Firefox. The gist of it is that Firefox, and only Firefox, will cause my
by kup0 7y ago
Hope this release somehow magically fixes an ongoing issue in Windows 10 I've had with Firefox.
The gist of it is that Firefox, and only Firefox, will cause my Windows 10 system to completely hard freeze (no mouse movement, no response period) for about 30-60 seconds at a time, multiple times daily. It's so frustrating that it makes FF unusable for me.
It's odd because it seems to be a rare issue that has to do with it not letting go of a GPU handle/process/thread or something, from what I've been able to deduce from others having this issue that have posted bugs in the tracker. I've tried everything under the sun to fix it, but no other program, period has this problem. I game, I use other browsers, I do all sorts of stuff on this PC with zero issues, but Firefox gives me these temporary hard-freezes. Ugh.
- canada_dry 7y ago> only Firefox will cause my Windows 10 system to completely hard freeze Whenever I experience this type of thing I can't help but speculate that issues like this are not serendipity at work. I recollect reading an article years back from a Microsoft developer who spoke about how it was quite common for Windows code to take specific actions based on which app was running - ostensibly to 'improve the user experience'. Though, it's not hard to imagine MS using this for the opposite purpose. And, since their code is proprietary, who would know?
- kup0 7y agoSeems somewhat unlikely in this instance, because apparently the issue I'm running into is pretty rare. There are millions of people using FF on W10 daily without any issues. Heck, even I have other W10 machines where it doesn't happen.