Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

[opethdisciple]

Works fine for me on Firefox, clicking plus works instantly.

It works, but you have to press it multiple times...

 

[opethdisciple]

Oh that is odd - it worked fine first time loading the page, and if I clear cache/cookies but any subsequent time does take multiple clicks.

EDIT: It isn't even that, randomly it works or doesn't work each time the page is loaded.

Yup that's what I found too, after you said it was working for you I tried it again and it was working!

Also go down to the section: related posts. Try clicking the links they don't work first time.

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[opethdisciple]

Revenue. They need a way to bring in more revenue, maybe acquiring such a company will help with that.

They are sort of going down the Brave route with Firefox.

 

[opethdisciple]

This should be OFF by default, why would anyone want this ON?

Agree. Rather than turning it on by default and not telling the end user, when you load up the browser for the first time after an update it should give you a button to turn on or off the feature and explain to you what it is and why it's needed.

Turning it on by default the issue is as it's essentially a beta feature they are testing there is the high possibility that something doesn't work correctly and it causes some exposure of personal data or whatever.

Even better would be to do the above but in the nightly, canary and maybe beta builds but not in the main release.

It's a beta feature and doesn't belong in the main release.

 

[opethdisciple]

Firefox is great browser. Deserves to be more popular than it is for sure.

 

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Well this really annoys me....

Mozilla removed the ability from the browser to send feedback to them about websites not working.

For months now the UK river website has been running super slow. I put it down to them.

However I have just realized the issue isn’t them but Firefox!

It runs super slow, loads incompletely and I have to refresh to get it to load.

And I cant even send them feedback that the website is not working properly in Firefox!

 

[opethdisciple]

No issues with that site on Firefox here.

Seems to work fine in Edge. But the website is very slow and loads incompletely with FF.

Often needs a reload of the browser to finally get the page up.

Edge is working perfectly on that website. FF is a no go.

 

[opethdisciple]

What is "the UK river website"?

The river that goes through Brazil.

There is definitely something wrong with it. I tested it yesterday. Works fine in Edge. But super slow and partially loads in FF.

Been like this for many months.

(I don't use any add-ons)

 

[opethdisciple]

Ok found how to report bugs

 

[opethdisciple]

Used it a couple of nights ago, had no issues at all on FF. Did you try a clean profile just to rule out any add-ons/settings/cache/etc that could be causing it?

I have no add-ons

 

[opethdisciple]

I've still got the Report Broken Site option in my menu, v135.

Interesting. Couldn't find it yesterday in the menu.

 

[opethdisciple]

Ok so I just tried the digital river on a other computer (no shared profile etc) and it does the same thing. Hanging connection then partial load.

I am using Clouflare DNS... I might try Google.

 

[opethdisciple]

I am definitely not alone with this problem.

Not exactly my issue but similar.

I am going to now try switching from Cloudflare DNS to Google DNS to see if that makes any difference.

 

[opethdisciple]

So I have switched to Google DNS and it is now much better.... not perfect there are still some parts of the digital river that hang or take a while but it is much much improved compared to using Cloudflare for DNS.

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Initially it seemed better but now it is going back to hanging.

 

[opethdisciple]

Bit of a weird one - I had similar problems years ago, though I can't remember details now, on BT where certain HTTPS connections were failing to load properly and required refreshing the page, often affecting Firefox the most.

I am with BT.

 

[opethdisciple]

Do people have DNS over HTTPS enabled in the browser?

If this was a DNS issue it wouldn’t be working fine in Edge.

Only FF is having problems.

 

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I've just placed an order on the Digital River and it has worked perfectly in FF.

Perhaps Amazon have changed something on their end.

 

[opethdisciple]

Amazon? Firefox has always worked on Amazon.

Not for me it hasn’t been.

It works... but it would load the page incompletely and would be very slow to load.

Has been like that for months.

Works in Edge though.

 

[opethdisciple]

Something will have been wrong with your profile in FF then as it's never been slow or incompatible generally speaking on Amazon. Amazon is one of the biggest sites online, being that way for most on FF would have been huge news.

Yea I know it sounds absolutely bizarre.