Just experienced very similar symptoms. After several restarts, (including manually killing background procs). I was able to get http(s) connections working again by manually disabling all extensions and restarting. So far I have re-enabled uBlock and then I came to HN and found this as top post. Now in the process off individually re-enabling extensions.
Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
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#162It is time for Mozilla to stop messing around. They are losing user trust extremely fast. A silent FireFox update that cripples the browser? No active update was done since yesterday and this morning: a broken browser. Please stop non-browser development and let me pay a monthly fee for a decent browser! I don’t want a VPN service, bookmark readers or other crap. I want Mozilla to defend the open web and create an op…
I don't think Mozilla's income is a problem. They are making money. The problem is how they spend that money. My impression is that they lost the original spirit. Mozilla lacked a BDFL that would embody that spirit. What's going on at Mozilla is probably what's going to happen for Linux once Linus is out. Both these pieces of open source software are way too big to be replicated now by a dude or a bunch of dudes and…
> What's going on at Mozilla is probably what's going to happen for Linux once Linus is out.
> Both these pieces of open source software are way too big to be replicated now by a dude or a bunch of dudes and also way too big to be maintained by people on their free time. They require resources and organization which itself corrupt the original spirit.
I doubt that one. There are a lot of big companies who employ the core developers as well as the Linux Foundation which employs Greg K-H [1]. Unlike Firefox where there isn't much corporate interest behind it, there is an absurd amount of corporate interest behind Linux so in the worst case the Kernel will become a corporate committee joint effort, but definitely it won't go down the hell that Firefox currently is.
Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fully agree with reader mode, it's an integral part of the browser. VPN not so much IMO.
Many people wouldn't otherwise sign up for a VPN, and there are a lot of shady VPNs out there. Mozilla can use the feature to help reduce dependence on a company that has been trying to destroy them for years (Google), and help non-tech people get set up with a VPN.
Google is the largest financial supporters in Firefox, they buy Firefox search bar. If they wanted to destroy Firefox, they’d already do it by simply cutting that revenue stream.
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#164Wow. Spent 2 hours trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my FF on arch. But did nothing and now writing that post from FF so DNS over HTTPS service was down maybe?
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#165What worked for me was disabling HTTP3 support with the 'network.http.http3.enabled' key in about:config and then restarting Firefox. Seems like it's stuck in the 'SocketThread', repeatedly doing this: 2022-01-13 08:20:53.075936 UTC - [Parent 4106991: Socket Thread]: V/nsHttp Http3Stream::OnReadSegment count=333 state=4 [this=7f6e295623a0]
I had to force quit and restart, but that seemed to do the trick for me too. Thank you!
I had something similar - changed the setting, closed firefox, opened it again and was presented with the message "Another instance of Firefox is already running. Please close other instances of Firefox". There was a firefox.exe process running 12% (on an 8-core machine, so it was pegging one core at 100%) that I had to kill. After that FF worked fine.
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#166What worked for me was disabling HTTP3 support with the 'network.http.http3.enabled' key in about:config and then restarting Firefox. Seems like it's stuck in the 'SocketThread', repeatedly doing this: 2022-01-13 08:20:53.075936 UTC - [Parent 4106991: Socket Thread]: V/nsHttp Http3Stream::OnReadSegment count=333 state=4 [this=7f6e295623a0]
This comment should be higher.
Thank you.
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#167What fixed it for me was to uncheck:
"Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla"
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#168Disabling all the extension seems to work around this as well, for me at least. But honestly, what's life without extensions.
For life without most extensions, try Firefox mobile...
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#169Looks like it's all fixed now. I made the http3 changes on my Windows machine, but currently on my nixOS machine and FF is working without any issues.
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#170I know it's a rant for which I may get downvoted, but I've grown really tired with Firefox. It's only my laziness (having to recreate all the setup, find equivalent extensions etc.) that keeps me from switching to another browser. Crashing tabs, losing pinned tabs, having to restart the browser when I switch to another wi-fi (eg. return home from the office), or otherwise all I'm getting is SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE er…
I think that sometimes, but where else can you run ublock origin and facebook and google containers?