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
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.
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 were when I last looked at them. IronFox is offered in the FFUpdater app, but not from F-droid, and Fennec is the opposite.
What works for me consistently is to open a website in Firefox, which I have installed as well. After that, Fennec works again.
Fennec allows you to open about:config on Android. That's why I use it.
Works in IronFox, too, apparently.