I am not able to load any websites with Firefox on my PC despite having an internet connection. I went on Reddit and found other people complaining of the exact same issue, so it appears to be a problem with firefox: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/s2u7eg/is_firefox_down/

My phone’s firefox browser works fine.

What can cause a browser to fail this way?

  • const_void
    7·
    3 years ago

    They claim a ‘cloud provider’ they use went down and that’s what caused all of this. The real question is why is there an always-on cloud connection in Firefox and why is it so important that the browser stops working if that server can’t be reached. Super fishy…

    https://twitter.com/firefox/status/1481657624651313155

    edit: fix link

    • Salamander@mander.xyzOP
      6·
      3 years ago

      The URL is missing a few numbers: https://twitter.com/firefox/status/1481657624651313155

      The tweet says:

      “Earlier today, Firefox became unresponsive due to a change in defaults by a cloud provider which triggered a Firefox HTTP/3 bug. We disabled the configuration change and confirmed this fixed the issue.”

      To be honest, I don’t understand what “a change in defaults by a cloud provider” even means. But it smells fishy indeed.