Trouble with Firefox 70.0 ?

[yorksrob]

Without warning, my computer browser updated itself to Firefox 70.0, a version that appears to date from two days ago.

Ever since then my internet seems to have become unstable and keeps crashing. Has anyone else had this problem ?.

 

[DaleCooper]

I've been having similar problems for a couple of weeks; I just checked and I'm on Firefox 70.0. I don't know if it makes any difference that I use Ubuntu.

 

[yorksrob]

I did wonder whether its a dud update, but my internet provider now seems to think that there's a problem with the network, so who knows !

 

[DaleCooper]

I did wonder whether its a dud update, but my internet provider now seems to think that there's a problem with the network, so who knows !

I'm with Virgin, what about you?

 

[yorksrob]

I'm with Virgin, what about you?

Me too. They seem to be ropey at times.

 

[DaleCooper]

My broadband has gone down briefly a couple of times recently but Firefox didn't crash.

 

[yorksrob]

I've only really started using it in the past few months.

 

[cactustwirly]

Me too. They seem to be ropey at times.

Yeah Virgin are a bit crap, the broadband down the phone line was much faster last year.
My Virgin broadband drops out sometimes in the evening, which it never did with other suppliers

 

[yorksrob]

Yeah Virgin are a bit crap, the broadband down the phone line was much faster last year.
My Virgin broadband drops out sometimes in the evening, which it never did with other suppliers

Indeed. Well, I agree they can be problematic, but at the same time I've had software updates that have made my computer go haywire, so I don't trust any of them.

 

[DaleCooper]

Firefox crashed again a few minutes ago, I've no reason to think it's a connection problem in fact I seem to recall seeing something about graphics being the cause on one occasion. Looking back at crash reports it appears the problem started 10 Oct.

 

[DaleCooper]

It just crashed again, it always seems to happen when opening a new tab or window.

 

[Bantamzen]

I used to be a huge fan of FF, but in recent years it just doesn't seem to have worked so well on Windows systems, and has been a mare on Android, so these days I limit it to my Linux based machine. A shame really, for a good while it was one of the most reliable browsers.