Question Firefox problems on Android 13 ROM

[samwhiteUK]

I'm using Pixel Extended ROM and every now and then I get notifications from Firefox says that a problem has occurred, and I then can't type in any fields on websites for logins etc. I have to force close the app and reopen it.

Does anyone else have this problem? I've reinstalled the app. Is it just my ROM, or an android 13 problem, or what? It's really starting to annoy me now

 

[samwhiteUK]

Bump. Forgot to mention that media in Firefox also won't play when this happens

 

[SparkFact]

I have the same problem. It's not a PEX problem because the same issues appears on CrDroid and Nameless too. It something with Firefox itself because on OOS Firefox works just fine.
So far I found no fix to that, I switched to another browser.

 

[SomeDooD123]

Yeah seeing the same issue here, currently on crDroid (latest build) myself

 

[joecool1029]

I've been doing my own builds of LOS20 and it affects me as well on 9 pro. It is not an issue on my 8T builds. I have tried with both 12 and 13 blobs and firmware. Most of the custom 13 roms are using 12 blobs still.

To gather some more information are all of you using models converted from TMO? Or did you start with EU/IN/GLO?

 

[SomeDooD123]

I've been doing my own builds of LOS20 and it affects me as well on 9 pro. It is not an issue on my 8T builds. I have tried with both 12 and 13 blobs and firmware. Most of the custom 13 roms are using 12 blobs still.

To gather some more information are all of you using models converted from TMO? Or did you start with EU/IN/GLO?

I have the US unlocked version LE2125

 

[this.guy.lol]

its prob an a13 issue firefox has issues alot. im on crdroid

 

[SparkFact]

I've been doing my own builds of LOS20 and it affects me as well on 9 pro. It is not an issue on my 8T builds. I have tried with both 12 and 13 blobs and firmware. Most of the custom 13 roms are using 12 blobs still.

To gather some more information are all of you using models converted from TMO? Or did you start with EU/IN/GLO?

I have the europe version LE2123.

 

[David_#27]

I used to use Firefox as well and having the same problems. I switched to Firefox beta and it's stable apart from its name. Try this one.

 

[joecool1029]

I used to use Firefox as well and having the same problems. I switched to Firefox beta and it's stable apart from its name. Try this one.

It'll continue to happen at random. I am also running Firefox beta for some time now.

 

[samwhiteUK]

EU LE2123 in my case. Glad to know it's not just me. I'm wondering if it's something to do with Firefox being used as the browser in other apps as well? I can't remember what that's called, like when an app shows a web page itself and it uses an existing browser without opening the full fat app. The only reason I suspect this is because sometimes swiping Firefox away from recents isn't enough to fix the problem, and I realise that Twitter for example also has a Firefox instance open. Closing the second app then resolved the problem

 

[samwhiteUK]

Has anyone come any closer to figuring this out? Or at least what triggers it?

 

[Appreciative]

Has anyone come any closer to figuring this out? Or at least what triggers it?

I remember an issue like this long ago that was resolved by going to about:config and turning off hardware acceleration. About:config was removed from regular play store versions of firefox but I believe you can still get to it with Firefox Beta and nightlies.

If you suspect it has something to do with webviews, you may be able to disable something for webviews in about:config

There's also possibilities something within developer options of your phone could help fix this until it's resolved officially

 

[brmbjn]

try brave browser...

 

[Mr.Conkel]

Has anyone come any closer to figuring this out? Or at least what triggers it?

I think all of this could be related to Keystore. If your having these problems filling out passwords in certain applications like outlook, firefox, instagram etc. the kernel is probably your issue.
There's really only a few things an end user can do to solve the problem. Either reflash firmware or switch to a compatible kernel and hope the problem goes away.
I sure hope this helps!

 

[VelosterM14]

brave browser is really becoming a viable option on android, been quite happy with it. We quit using ffox on android long time ago, got tired of the trouble and they have become political in the last 2-3 years as well. No longer trusted here.

My daily driver is LE2125 on LOS 19.1 currently, I am having other problems on LOS20 (cert store is unstable, it screws up all mail apps that read our client X509 certs used to authenticate to our mail servers - and we do not install a google apps/play services of any kind on ours so this is just LOS20/Android 13 issue, cant blame the google apps). I have a spare LE2125 I am running LOS20 on, brave is rock solid on that too, probably worth a try. just a suggestion.

 

[joecool1029]

It's binder driver screwed up in kernel. There are patches in testing which greatly improve the situation but it seems not fully fixed yet. See the LOS20 thread for more information. It's not a firefox bug, just firefox is one of the apps affected by it.