[PLUG] Firefox or security problems

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Try: ping www.google.com
> To check that you DNS resolution works as it should.
> If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if
> Firefox is not stuck on DNS.

IP addresses in URL's almost always fail due to HTTP 2.0
virtual hosting using the string form of the URL to decide
which web site your looking for.

It well certainly cause a tls failure if https is tried as
the IP address does not match the certificate.

> Better be sure about this before wasting a lot more time.
> 
> You could also try to reinstall Firefox and remove it's configuration
> before relaunching it again.
> 
> Hope it gets you back on track,
> Tomas
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 22:11 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:34 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> dijo:
> >
> > >This is a long shot, but I am seeing some odd behavior from FireFox
> > >on FreeBSD after my FreeBSD 12.0 release update, and in normal mode
> > >firefox does indeed seem to hang on almost everything, but if I
> > >open a second tab, go to that tab, and then back to the original
> > >tab.. wham it renders.
> >
> > I tried opening another tab lots of times, but it makes no difference.
> > No page will load. The results I get are exactly the same as when I am
> > without any net connection.
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org