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

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Post by skinkestek »

jiggawatts wrote: post #310
dantondwa wrote: post #37

And here I go explaining my friends and family I helped switch to Firefox that the browser I've installed on their computers got broken at the beginning of a new day while Edge and Chrome work fine... personally, I know very well bugs happen and I'm not mad, but this certainly hurts the confidence in it for the non-tech people.

I've spent the last 3 days angrily submitting bug ticket after bug ticket, including one for Firefox. I just got a new laptop, and the amount of things that get shipped totally broken is just crazy. Windows 11 almost but not entirely broke HDR. It kinda-sorta works for some things, sometimes , but most apps that used to work with HDR back in Windows 10 just can't any more and are forced to use SDR with sRGB gamut onl…

Can I add that Defender activates on top of the other Antivirus that our lovely (no not sarcasm, they are lovely, they just get tripped by MS) IT department bought and push-installed?

Earlier it said the other AV solution was turned off (it was not) and I had no valid protection.

Now it doesn't even say an excuse. It just keeps running with no obvious way to turn it off.

Surely it was good UX to remove that "clutter"?

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

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Post by nottorp »

elcapitan wrote: post #190
nottorp wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that sometimes, but where else can you run ublock origin and facebook and google containers?

Multi-Account Containers are really the only remaining feature that keeps me from switching to Chrome. Obviously this won't happen in Chrome though :/

Has Chrome stopped signing you in to google browser wide without your permission?

And even if they do, can you trust google that they're not watching everything you browse through a mechanism that privacy extensions cannot affect? For example the malware database.

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

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Post by johnnywasagood »

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #311
johnnywasagood wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The goal is to fully control your environment and not to expecting some unexpected updates. User is the one who must choose update policy. If user is choosing to not update then it's their own problem and no manufacturer has the right to deside otherwise.

Automatic updates are a good default, you can always disable them if you don't want them.

Good default is to ask users about their preferences explicitly and not to hide that kind of settings anywhere.

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

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Post by poisonborz »

hffftz wrote: post #168
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.

For life without most extensions, try Firefox mobile...

There is a relatively easy fix for that, I use all my desktop extensions without problem

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

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Post by mhio »

bipson wrote: post #282
jacquesm wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was perfectly happy with the one that didn't support this 'feature', and automatic updates are what brought it to my system.

Yeah, the alternative is running a system with a ton of outdated software, with known bugs and active exploits while casually surfing the "oh-so-cosy-and-entirely-harmless" WWW... The goal is not to ostracize automatic updates, but to have faster fixes. Or to separate security updates from feature updates, but I think this ship has long sailed for modern browsers.

In the case of Firefox, there's also the Extended Support Release. Security updates without the UI change every 4 weeks

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switch-to-firefox-exten...

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

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Post by fpina »

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]

Thank you!
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