Have you tried downloading the full installer from

Download Firefox For All languages And Systems {web link}

I have Firefox. This often does not function well as it is constantly trying to get Updates for itself.

The full download is blocked as well. IP addresses are blocked.

I start a VPN, then let Firefox Update itself. Then speed of browser action returns.

crystal-clear said

This goes back to my other thing. If I log into the basic Firefox website, (They do not block the Firefox opening page, just the download link will not work) I expect to see by the download link the version of the latest Firefox, and its release date, as that is how I orientate how much difficulty I need to go through to get my Firefox updates.

I've never tried the wi-fi at McDonald's, so I don't know how it works there. What happens when you try to load the page? Do you get a specific error message you could copy/paste into a reply here?

See also the Browser Console.

• "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Web Developer
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Tools/Browser_Console

Thanks to all of you for reading my post, I don't seem to have explained what I think is happening very well.

I don't need to find a tab setting of some kind to make the browser perform as it can. I can do that by turning on a VPN until the update occurs, then the speed/quickness of Firefox returns. Even if I turn off the VPN, which can bring its own slowness to my internet connection, Firefox returns to its quick self. It is the constant attempt to do updates, which will fail due to the block which slows Firefox.

Occasional computer users will not realize, not be willing to do that. They will notice over a period of time that Firefox is habitually slothful, hanging and such. Thereby, Firefox will lose users.

I would be pretty sure the public WiFi connections will not block Edge. Public WiFi connections are opposed to the privacy efforts of Firefox, hence the block.

Perhaps there is a group of brainy people at Firefox thinking on this. Perhaps they are considering implementing some kind of Free VPN inside the native build of Firefox. Of course, the public WiFi connection, if it identifies the VPN IP, they will block it. I assume they will not block the VPN I use, as it is a pay for product, and that is not a battle those who provide the free WiFi wants against a VPN. Blocks are focused against Free Software, in actuality, I think against Privacy on the internet.

What a private business does on their free wifi that you use is their policy and firefox End user forum can't help with that problem. There is no good VPN solution and trying to have firefox make one is a long shot at best. You could also contact their corporate headquarters and ask their support is this something they are doing. Free wifi isn't "Free sense" as one thinks so let's put that notion to rest here. The policy is their policy to do as they please so one day it could be unless your a paying customer you don't get access to our wifi and this has become part of the norm now.

West End, what you are saying is that WiFi is not governed by rules of being a Utility. It is like the power company denying me power because I how I use their power.

You are also turning your back on the concept that my private business be laid open to the Spying of places like Google. Part of why some of us use Firefox is that it offers us the option to keep our business private.

The position of what provider can and not do, is more similar to the policies of countries like Iran, Red China, North Korea.

I should say, at one time I would have agreed with all that has been said; "that a private company can set the rules."