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New Tabs Sometimes Inaccessible

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Sometimes, I'll click a new tab, and "something" happens. It's like it tries to create a new tab, yet it's just a half-formed nothing that you can't interact with. And when this happens, Firefox is destined to eventually crash / become unresponsive. I literally have to reboot to get Firefox working again. I haven't tried logging out. That would probably work, too.

This also happens when moving new tabs, but I've only notice that happen on tabs with Youtube.com open.

firefox -V Mozilla Firefox 100.0.2

Sometimes, I'll click a new tab, and "something" happens. It's like it tries to create a new tab, yet it's just a half-formed nothing that you can't interact with. And when this happens, Firefox is destined to eventually crash / become unresponsive. I literally have to reboot to get Firefox working again. I haven't tried logging out. That would probably work, too. This also happens when moving new tabs, but I've only notice that happen on tabs with Youtube.com open. firefox -V Mozilla Firefox 100.0.2

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~ /usr/bin/cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Fedora Linux" VERSION="35 (Workstation Edition)"

~ uname -a Linux fedora 5.17.12-200.fc35.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 30 16:58:37 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Forgot to add some useful info.

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Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run it from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release