google.com is not available when it is available on other browsers using same proxy.
Hello,
I'm using version 60.7.2esr in an enterprise context behind a proxy.
And I have the following issue : after some time using firefox, https://www.google.com becomes unreachable.
But this website is available from edge or chrome. All these other browsers are using the same enterprise proxy with the same configuration.
I checked the network tab : there is no even a header sent apparently, hinting there is an issue before even getting to send a header.
Hence I imagined it could be a firefox DNS cache issue.
I deactivated it by modifying the user.js as I cannot modify it in about:preferences user_pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch","true") user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration",0)
But that didn't change the issue.
Do you have any suggestion on how to find what is going on? or a possible culprit?
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Please explain the problem in detail. What happens? What are the exact error message(s) ?
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Hello,
Thank you for your answer and suggestions, they are useful when you are on a "free" firefox, but not on the enterprise version used at my work and for which I report this error.
The exact error, is that the browser is freezed : the page that should show a google search form, remains pending indefinitively.
On the network page : there is no header and the stack trace remains : loadURI/< chrome://global/content/browser-child.js:359:14 _wrapURIChangeCall chrome://global/content/browser-child.js:311:7 loadURI chrome://global/content/browser-child.js:358:5 receiveMessage chrome://global/content/browser-child.js:291:9
I don't have admin right to install any security tool on my side. There are company security tools running that should ensure, it is the case.
I cannot start on safe mode : with that version of firefox, the about:addons show a page indicating : "Your organisation has blocked access to this page or web site.". I imagine they don't want people to remove the enterprise add-on that disable that. In short, many standard firefox features are not available.
The idea that the issue is cookies linked could be true, but in that case there would have been at least an header sent.
The browsers page freeze before reaching the header sending step.
It looks a bit like what is reported here : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378520
But to my knowledge, I'm not in private window (that button is also not visible..)
Have you contacted your IT yet? Is Google the only problem?
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