Ublock 1.66.4 crashes Firefox when on Youtube, causes numerous other symptoms as well

[nollinvoyd]

Because of all the conditions set forth here about bug reporting, I'm posting here. I can list all the symptoms, with images if necessary, but I troubleshooted with about:support, trial and error with enabling/disabling all addons.

The conclusion was that reverting back to v1.65.0 eliminated the problems. I have this one image (I also have others), of task manager to give you the idea what was happening. Where I try to reboot the browser, it take about 5 minuted to relaunch,. During that p[eriod, it results in an abundance of Firefox instances listed in Task manager. There are many more, but I couldn't capture them since they were out of view.

[stephenhawk8054]

Does the issue occur in a new Firefox profile?

[nollinvoyd]

I had a backup profile. I transferred the session. history, etc. It was ok until I tried to update all the extensions in that backup, which resulted in a return of the problematic freezing, and led me to discover a slew of odd update behaviors/idiosyncrasies, for which I have images. I just don't want to overload the thread with those unless necessary.

The reversion to v1.65.0 also solved all those issues, as far as I can tell. I'm using the profile now.

[stephenhawk8054]

I didn't tell you to backup or restore anything. We can't investigate with your backup. We don't have your backup or session or history data here.

In order to investigate, we need to reproduce. In order to reproduce, we need at least a similar environment. In order to have a similar environment, we need to at least start with a new profile.

Does the issue occur in a brand new profile?

[nollinvoyd]

Does the issue occur in a brand new profile?

No. But, how do we explain the problems occurring in the current profile if the only thing changed is the update to 1.66.4, and the return to normal behavior when reverting back to the previous version?

Also, please explain the difference between a fresh profile, and running the current Firefox profile in safe mode with only ublock active, where the same problems continued?

[gothic-bum]

Does the issue occur in a brand new profile?
No.

That indicates that your issue is not caused by uBO.

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But, how do we explain the problems occurring in the current profile if the only thing changed is the update to 1.66.4, and the return to normal behavior when reverting back to the previous version?

That's why you need to follow the instructions when reporting an issue and provide all of the required information.

In order for volunteers to properly investigate your issue, they need to be able to reproduce it and have details about your specific configuration.

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Because of all the conditions set forth here about bug reporting

See above.

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Also, please explain the difference between a fresh profile, and running the current Firefox profile in safe mode with only ublock active, where the same problems continued?

A fresh profile uses the default settings.

Your current profile may not have the default settings for either Firefox or uBO, and "safe mode" does not revert to the default settings.

[stephenhawk8054]

No.

Does the issue occur if you sign in to youtube in the new profile?

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But, how do we explain the problems occurring in the current profile if the only thing changed is the update to 1.66.4, and the return to normal behavior when reverting back to the previous version?

Also, please explain the difference between a fresh profile, and running the current Firefox profile in safe mode with only ublock active, where the same problems continued?

We don't know. Please remember, we are not at your computer to investigate properly. We are basically doing remote investigation via github comments without able to see anything here. We are not wizards.

We are not behind your shoulders to see which exact steps you did to troubleshoot the issue. Hence we need to go steps by steps with the step we are imagining correctly in our heads. If the issue does not occur in the new profile, then we'll continue with other basic steps in the old profile.

[nollinvoyd]

Sorry for the false alarm. It was a confusing situation. I just recently discovered the cause was the Enhancer for Youtube addon.

Once again, so sorry.

[stephenhawk8054]

Because of all the conditions set forth here about bug reporting

That's why we put all of those "conditions" for users to check themselves before reporting to here. Those are not for taking lightly.

We write it clearly at several places for users to READ

• I completely disabled ALL other extensions AND browser's built-in blockers. <== They might interfere with our solutions.