Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by 878654Tom » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:34 AM UTC

Had the problem but seems it is fixed now?

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by roosmaa » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:36 AM UTC

Disabling all the extension seems to work around this as well, for me at least. But honestly, what's life without extensions.

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by Asmod4n » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

Might it be that Firefox checks if there are updates for it and hangs if it can’t connect to the server?

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by rnd0 » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

roosmaa wrote: post #22

Disabling all the extension seems to work around this as well, for me at least. But honestly, what's life without extensions.

Even that didn't help -and I only have three extentions. What finally helped was setting network.http.http3.enabled false in about config.

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by miohtama » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:37 AM UTC

jbaiter wrote: post #6

What 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]

It worked. Where can I buy you a beer?

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by toastal » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

starwatch wrote: post #2

I'm having the same issue. All tabs froze and the FF energy demand spiked. I upgraded manually from 95.0.2 to 96.0 but the issue persisted. Twitter[1] is currently lighting up with broken FF reports across the globe. Some people are reporting that if you hold down Shift while opening it works (though any FF personalisation is wiped). That didn't work for me on Mac. [1]: https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=firefox%20u…

At least the fix for Fx was wrapped up quickly.

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by dantondwa » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

styeco wrote: post #18

I really hope the auto-update component doesn't have the same issue, otherwise Firefox is essentially dead on millions of computers owned by non-techies.

Exactly what I was thinking. I hope they thought about this case and made the updater use a different stack...

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by framtidsljus » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

Same here, actually reinstalled Firefox Developer Edition on Win 10.

Edit: the issue came back after reinstall! I had to disable http3 in about:config to resolve this issue.

Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by revendell_elf » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

jbaiter wrote: post #6

What 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]

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Re: Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

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Post by yuliyp » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:39 AM UTC

So what's strange here is that these hangs are weeks after Firefox 95.0.2 was released. That points to either DoH provider or some HTTP 3 server triggering the buggy behavior at scale. Either is fairly scary.