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Hello, the Secure Connection Failed started up after one of your recent updates. It is affecting News Max and my banks internet banking software. Both sites work fine in MS Edge. The fix I read on your site said to try this: "In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear.

   Click I'll be careful, I promise! to continue to the about:config page.
   copy the next security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling and paste it in the search field
   double-click on it to make it false
   close the page, exit firefox and restart it. "

Doesn't work for me. What else can I try?

Take care, Doug

Letmewatchthis Watch Letmewatchthis Watch and but other sites are fine letmewatchthis.city. Regular visitor to that site and tests show it is up

Just suddenly 3 hours ago, Letmewatchthis.watch stopped working for me "Unable to connect

        Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.letmewatchthis.ch.
      

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
  moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
  connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
  that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

I am running Firefox 129.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 20.04.4

Recently, I have been browsing a StackExchange site and hit the back button of the browser several times (still remaining on StackExchange). I then realized that upon the last button click, Firefox downloaded a weird HTML file called something like ha71ksd.htm. The file was empty (0KB) and when uploading it to VirusTotal it showed me a completely different file there (probably since the hash of an empty file is always the same).

In any case, I am a bit worried that I might have been infected by a virus. Therefore, I'd like to at least reproduce what happened. I read in different places that it might have something to do with a wrong MIME type reported by a server prompting Firefox to download instead of displaying a file. But Stackoverflow having such a misconfiguration is also strange. I know that a 0KB file cannot contain anything malicious but the whole incident seemed highly suspicious and I need to find out what happened.

Any help or tips are appreciated!

I am facing an issue where i sometimes search but it doesn't load. Its as if the links breaks. Refreshing doesn't work. I open a new tab and sometimes it works or i spam my search then it loads.

Its getting to the point where i face this issue i open Chrome to do my search. Which is inconvenient I started facing this after i updated. Please may I get assistance.

I joined a couple facebook groups. Each offered a file tab with documents available for download.

I tried numerous times with firefox and it failed. Clicking the "Download" item on the ... menu caused the same files tab view and list to open in a new tab.

I hated to do it, but I dusted off M$ Internet Explorer, logged into FB and joined a group, clicked the Files tab, selected a file, clicked the 3 dots, menu popped up and I clicked "Download". Poof. The Save As popup appeared, the file was downloaded. Works as expected with IE.

Might there be a setting in FF that is blocking such downloads of PDF and .doc document files?