every address timing out (google is the culprit)
I have been having a bizarre problem for over a week. No matter what address I connect to (via a link or typing it in), down at the bottom of the browser I can see that a google.com address is stalled, not connecting, and preventing access to the connection - to the point of the connection timing out. My ISP is functioning properly.
I am not talking about links I click from a google search, but any and all pages I access.
In the first place there is no need for a google connection to be involved with the sites I am going to. And in the second place is there a way to prevent what I am guessing is google tracking, since it seems to the problem that is timing out all my browser activity.
Thirdly, I installed Chrome, also, to use a specific add-on for a project I work on. But the add-on did not do anything useful, so I uninstalled Chrome for that reason but also because there are clearly a lot of instances of telemetry that it does not appear possible to stop since Chrome does not seem to be configurable.
Of course there was a lot of Chrome junk that was not uninstalled. I was wondering if that could be causing the problem. So yesterday I made sure to get rid of as much of it as I could in the directory and the registry. But it has not made a difference.
I assume it is not a Firefox problem, since I use Cyberfox when a need a 32bit browers and have the same problem, though it is not as pronounced.
Any ideas about what is causing the problem and how I can put an end to it are welcome.
(I detest Windows 10 and how it dumbs down everything and prevents configuring, so continue to happily use Windows 7 (and XP too) with a stable 40MB ethernet connection. I am also using 8.8.8.8 DNS (googles) plugged into my modem so that Roku does a better job of connecting than if I use my ISP DNS.)
Mary G.
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Hi Mary, usually installing Chrome wouldn't change the way Firefox connects, but you could take a look on the Options page. Either:
- Windows: "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options
- Mac: "3-bar" menu button (or Firefox menu) > Preferences
- Linux: "3-bar" menu button (or Edit menu) > Preferences
- Any system: type or paste about:preferences into the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it
In the search box at the top of the page, type proxy and Firefox should filter to the "Settings" button, which you can click.
The default of "Use system proxy settings" piggybacks on your Windows/IE "LAN" setting. "Auto-detect" can lead to a flaky connection. You may want to try "No proxy".
Any difference?
The same dialog also offers the option to turn DNS over HTTPS on or off (a bit further down). You could try switching it to see whether it makes any difference. This article describes what that is about: Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS.
If that doesn't make any difference, could you try an experiment. Firefox has a panel in its Developer Tools that lets you see each request generated during a page load. To open the Network Monitor, either:
To open the Network Monitor in the lower part of the tab, you can use either:
- "3-bar" menu button > Web Developer > Network
- (menu bar) Tools > Web Developer > Network
- (Windows) Ctrl+Shift+e
When you reload the or follow a new link, Firefox should start listing all the files it is requesting, along with information about whether the request was successful. There's also a kind of time line at the end of each row. Where do you see failures/slow-downs?
If the links are redirecting, the previous list will be lost. To keep the list across pages, click the little gear icon at the right side of the panel just below the X button and turn on Persist Logs.
Can you try changing your DNS or even trying to go to a site using the ip address. Ex. For me 172.217.10.110 is google.com. Also flush your dns from the command prompt as admin ipconfig /flushdns I use recently switched to cloudflare dns due to game connection issues I was having with opendns.org and have not had the same connection issues.
This app can help you see the performance of you current dns provider https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
You may need to change your DNS. I recently switched from opendns to cloudfare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/). I was having ps4 game connection issues and since I switched to cloudfare I have not seen the error.
Here is a tool to help find the best dns. https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm