Firefox 36 DNS issues, revert to 35 or go to beta to get patch?
Been having problems with V36 hanging on loading sites, and it seems that there was a change made in 36 in relation to DNS issues, Bug 1093983 apparently refers to it, and I can't determine the best course to resolve, do I revert to 35, and is that even safe to do without all manner of problems, or install the 37 beta,
As things are right now, this issue is causing significant slow downs on loading sites, and regular failures to load the site, which is not exactly helpful, so I can't just ignore this, I need to go with one of other of the above, unless someone can suggest a better option
Thanks
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See thread for more of us with these problem:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1049998#answer-698732
But quick answer appears to be to go into about:config and set network.dns.get-ttl to false. You then have to exit out of FF and run it again. After that it all works without problems as far as I can see.
Note that there will be a Firefox 36.0.1 release that will address some issues including this one.
Applied the 36.0.1 update, and reset the relevant config information, and the DNS servers, but having originally thought that the problem was resolved, it would appear that the issue is still present, I am still seeing delays or failures to load on known good sites.
XP Home SP3 with all subsequent patches applied, all other optional updates to things like Java are applied, using Java 8 latest release.
Any suggestions appreciated, as this is causing some problems.
Do you have Norton software?
- [/questions/1048938] Firefox takes two minutes plus to load, apparant clash with Norton Internet Security
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Boot the computer in Windows Safe Mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test.
No, No Norton here, using Bitdefender, and no issues with it that I'm aware of, the Firefox start is no longer than it has been, it's just the number of failed site loads that are happening since the 36 update. I'm not seeing the same issues with Chrome, but I prefer fIrefox, and on an old XP machine IE8 is not a safe option any more.
It's not a memory issue,, there's spare CPU cycles. it's not disc space, or fragmentation, there's 4 Gb memory, dual core, over 130 Gb free space on the drive, and it's been defragmented recently, and the caches have all be cleared as well.