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

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Post by Shaanie »

dotdi wrote: post #243

This happened to me and a co-worker too, and I could resolve it with a `sudo killall firefox` and re-starting it. In contrast to all the heat from many of the comments here, I'll say this: shit happens to any company. My trust in Mozilla is not (yet) shaken just because a bug made it into production, even if that bug made it there due to bad decisions or even (hopefully temporary) lack of vision. I, for one, am not c…

I would guess it's an absolute disaster for Firefox. While it's not going to make me switch from FF to Chrome personally, this issue is big enough for me to not install Firefox on non-techies computers. I bet a significant amount of people will permanently switch away from Firefox due to this too.

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

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Post by romland »

jacquesm wrote: post #270
pmontra wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It didn't re-enable for me.

When did you disable it?

Anecdotal and same for me (it's not re-enabled). I have not touched those telemetry settings for years, cannot say exactly when.

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

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Post by Ekaros »

smcl wrote: post #309
skinkestek wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is for people like me who doesn't want every domain I ever type in to be sent to Google or somewhere else for autocompletion. I mean, most of all lkve autocomplete, but when you type in . or what have you, are you sure you want everyone of these keystrokes to go to Google? If not then you want a separate search field.

Ah I think you're mistaken. We're talking about when you open a new tab in Firefox the default landing page has a little grid showing commonly accessed sites as well as an additional search/address bar which says "Search with google or enter address" We have the same feelings on this - I also would prefer an explicitly separate search bar and address bar. Edit: or maybe I'm understanding Ekaros' comment incorrectly?…

No this is exactly correct.

I can just write the address in address bar if I want. But I do not have search engine as default page or even have one in as bookmark. So I would love to just have a search box where I can copy paste a filename with either full path or as something.py... And browser to not try to access non existent .py domain which only has third-level addresses anyway...

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

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Post by foxfluff »

londons_explore wrote: post #314
bryanp2021 wrote: post #302

I've been using firefox since its very first day. In recent months I have had quite a lot of issues. Somehow the fullscreen mode always shows "Press ESC to escape". Last week, somehow all my cookies are gone and I have to re-login all sites again; worst, all add-ons settings are gone too. Well quite a lot of stuff. It's my mistake to install some add-ons or something crazy, but I really hope there is any easy way to…

Unfortunately no browser is yet sufficiently bug-free for a frequent user not to hit bugs pretty frequently... Eg. last week Chrome kept displaying graphical glitches wherever webgl content should render...

Saying "yet" almost implies there's supposed to be progress towards it?

If anything, I think there's been regress. There was a time, long past, when I didn't really have to think about the browser itself much at all. It just did its job and problems were rare. Browsers and the web have turned enormously complex now. WebGL is a case in point: it's complex by itself, and it also brings in all the complexity of the graphics drivers & GL implementation on your system. Graphics drivers are the most complex of all drivers on your system, and GPUs are the least reliable of your components..

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

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Post by torstenvl »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #318
jacquesm wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My browser isn't supposed to have any 'backend services'. Especially not backend services that I did not explicitly opt in to.

It's not a backend service on your browser, it's on whatever webpage you tried to visit.

No, it's in the browser. Turn off all data collection and the bug disappears.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c10

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

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Post by rightbyte »

perlwle wrote: post #80
dantondwa wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Auto-Update doesn't work anymore. It's the first thing I tried when encounter this issue like 20 minutes ago. Can't access any website or making any connection without disable `network.http.http3.enabled` and restart. This impact is huge for million of firefox users!

Good. Abusing the users for testing via forced auto updates is short sighted and hopefully enough people change browser that Mozilla change their ways.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

skywal_l wrote: post #264
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's been posted already but putting it here for better visibility: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908

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