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Randomly but now very frequent when I type into the search box for a known site Norton is blocking and saying " Protocol Error Unable to open the site" Recommends contacting Firefox" Norton message says We prevented your connection to orbitsearchonline.com because of dangerous webpage. But I have never tried to connect to this website. This started after the new update to Firefox about a week ago. Can you help please.

Some URLs e.g. Costco.ca, amazon.ca etc will not load. I use FF and also have Chrome, Edge that have the same problem. One must assume that it is a settings problem with my Bosgame/Ryzen7 PC.

I am wondering if it is possibly caused by FF with all the safety build into it's design.? I have tried many items regarding the situation.

Thank you BobN

I am living in China and I used to be able to use a VPN with firefox without any problems.

Several months ago, I was suddenly only able to browse if I switched the VPN on (previously, it worked with or without (depending on whether the website was accessible from China).

I have recently changed VPN providers and now firefox doesn't browse at all.

Is there anything I should change in the settings?

Thanks

Why does Firefox think I am in Norway when I am in France? I use nordvpn for financial browsing but turn it off once I'm done. The VPN is not currently active, I have cleared cache and cookies and restarted Firefox and it still thinks I'm in Norway so search results are not accurate. Browser language is set to English and French. Thanks for any help in advance. UF

As mentioned, When google email account is open, opening another operative window, firefox automatically closes the email account. Why is this ? This looks to me as a possible bug or IE security program intervening to avoid cross connectivity and security violations between other opened windows. Correct ? This is annoying as an R&D engineer it is common to work with several opened windows. Any solutions or fixes ? rJ

Hello,

I'm using lasted version of Firefox Desktop and also using Kaspersky VPN. Whenever vpn is deactivated I cannot connect some websites. I just clicked and nothing happens. But if i tried with activated vpn, it's connecting.

I was trying to solve this problem but cant find solution.

PS. I did try on other browsers(Edge and Opera). I just connecting whatever is vpn status.

I cannot access my xfinity account due to my anti-virus (Eset) blocking Firefox's access to assets.xfinity.com

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich Esset home auf meinen Computer und mein Tablett installiert. Immer wenn ich das Internet (FireFox) öffne kommt die Warnmeldung "Sicheres Banking & Surfen ist erst nach einem Neustart des Computers voll funktionsfähig." Den Neustart habe ich bereits mehrmals veranlasst. Die Warnmeldung kommt aber immer wieder. Was soll ich machen? Bin ich beim OnlineBanking und Surfen nicht sicher?

Why so many 'I am not a robot" picture checking and redundancy on motorcycles too? It's blocking my Firefox website address defaulting to Google's address bar? Only change I made was activating my AVAST security VPN subscription.

THE FOLLOWING SHOWED AFTER FIREFOX WAS UPDATED: NO SETTINGS HAVE BEEN CHANGEDTHE BOOKMARKS AND HISTORY SYSTEM WILL NOT BE FUNCTIONAL BECAUSE ONE OF FIREFOX’S FILES IS IN USE BY ANOTHER APPLICATION. SOME SECURITY SOFTWARE CAN CAUSE THIS PROBLEM.

I have disabled and removed any and all VPN's from my main unit. I have reloaded Firefox and cleaned the registry. Still getting the message and am unable to display images. Any ideas?

My virus software [ESET] continues to throw a warning for this site: https://smartadblock.net/febc/check.php, whether in FireFox or not.

The full message is this:

03/05/2026 12:34:31 PM;HTTP filter;file;https://smartadblock.net/febc/check.php?smarterBlockeruser=5a95aca1-0bc7-44aa-8530-b24c4663d295&smarterBlockerch=75779&smarterBlockerclck=KYYhsXKkLAiq86nMniI_QBbvIGZ_3n5L;JS/Redirector.SWD trojan;connection terminated;TRANZFORMATION\wally;Event occurred during an attempt to access the web by the application: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe (83D3842D579E5B6E2E5B055CCA4FB90933489C28).;08C31D6E8BB70C29570A45FB6BCACD9881E3C0DF;;S-1-5-21-500642325-2770745265-1048253706-1001;

This just started yesterday 3/4/2026

Can someone advise me on this?

no matter what I try to search get error messages . Just started. Have used ESET security and Firefox for years with no issue till now. Did you change something? Don't get errors with MS EDGE.