Private Browsing windows can't reach Google
Regular FF windows can reach Google fine. Private windows just continually spin for google.com and things like google cookies on other sites. I flushed my DNS and did a "Firefox Refresh" just a couple days ago for this same issue. Nothing is showing up in the devTools console or network tabs other than the GET which looks empty too. I also tried going to the IP address from a ping to www.google.com. I see the little message in the bottom left "waiting for google.com" so it seems like it's resolving the name at least. It's been doing this on and off for months now. This is my work computer so we do have a firewall but doesn't seem like it would be that since I can reach it in regular windows and have no issues in Chrome or IE. I imagine another refresh will sort it for the moment again but I don't want to keep doing refreshes every couple of days. I'm a QA analyst for an ecom site so I use private windows a lot to avoid having to clear my cache and cookies to pretend to be a new user.
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A combination of firewalls and private browsing in any browser will often stop websites like Google from loading, as it uses something called HSTS. HSTS basically tells your browser it cannot load it unless it is totally secure.
The problem may be that the firewall at work is not allowing certain data to pass that Google requires for security, or it may be that Firefox's Private Browsing experience is trying to stop Google from loading something that would make your browsing not private.
andersmmg said
A combination of firewalls and private browsing in any browser will often stop websites like Google from loading, as it uses something called HSTS. HSTS basically tells your browser it cannot load it unless it is totally secure. The problem may be that the firewall at work is not allowing certain data to pass that Google requires for security, or it may be that Firefox's Private Browsing experience is trying to stop Google from loading something that would make your browsing not private.
If it was something from the firewall or the HSTS wouldn't it mess with private Chrome and IE windows too? And it doesn't appear to be consistent. As in this worked yesterday and nothing got updated on my computer overnight.
Not always, different browsers can use different systems to read and/or secure data. It could still be a problem on only one browser. Do you have the latest Firefox?
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andersmmg said
Not always, different browsers can use different systems to read and/or secure data. It could still be a problem on only one browser. Do you have the latest Firefox?
Yeah 55.0.3.
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked