Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems/

2019-08-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> The problem remains trying to figure out which setting it is. Later >> today I will rename the new .mozilla folder that it created just >> now, then poke around in the old one to see

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems/

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: The problem remains trying to figure out which setting it is. Later today I will rename the new .mozilla folder that it created just now, then poke around in the old one to see if I get any clues. The answer is in there somewhere. John, Copy one

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems/

2019-08-22 Thread wes
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:28 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > The problem remains trying to figure out which setting it is. Later > today I will rename the new .mozilla folder that it created just now, > then poke around in the old one to see if I get any clues. The answer > is in there somewhere.

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems/

2019-08-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:03:04 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >Last Sunday at the Clinic I did a dist-update on my Xubuntu 16.04 - an >update, not an upgrade to 18.04. After rebooting everything works >perfectly, except Firefox. The update installed a new version of >Firefox so I now have Firefox

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread wes
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:07 AM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:02:59 -0700 > > John Meissen dijo: > > > > >Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the > > >latter, did you try turning it off? > > > > I have restarted Firefox with it checked, and

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:02:59 -0700 > John Meissen dijo: > > >Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the > >latter, did you try turning it off? > > I have restarted Firefox with it checked, and with it unchecked. > Neither setting made any difference. I am rather

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:02:59 -0700 John Meissen dijo: >Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the >latter, did you try turning it off? I have restarted Firefox with it checked, and with it unchecked. Neither setting made any difference.

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: You had a typo in your URL so this test is invalid so far Try opening the page again with http:// Another site that uses only http is http://www.portlandgasprices.com/ Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread Ben Koenig
Have you tried to reinstall firefox? Before you say yes (i read your response earlier) verify that you reinstalled the entire program AND deleted its user configuration directory. when ff updates it first has to import the old config and then convert to the new format. This process can yield

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-22 Thread John Meissen
Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the latter, did you try turning it off? On 8/21/19 8:45 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:03:18 -0700 John Meissen dijo: It's possible that it's related to this: Go to *"*about:preferences" In the General

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:18:39 -0700 wes dijo: >Have you tried both HTTP and HTTPS sites? And I mean a site that does >not force you to HTTPS, which may be hard to find. pdxlinux.org is one >such. I tried pdxlinux.org previously, but just now I browsed through my hundreds of saved bookmarks,

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:53:03 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: >> >Go to *"*about:preferences" >> >In the General section, scroll down to the Network Settings panel, >> >and press the Settings button. >> >In the popup, scroll down and look for "Enable DNS over HTTPS". >> >> It was already

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:54:49 -0700 wes dijo: >On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 8:42 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> Here is the error for pdxlinux.org: >> >> The address wasn’t understood >> Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of >> the following protocols

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:49:53 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: >Ah, your trying to open a logged in secure mail box session, >probably not a good place to start debugging this. Well, Firefox has long had the login and password saved, and it used to just open the mailbox, but ... >Try some

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 8:52 PM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:13:15 -0700 > > wes dijo: > > > > >The "problem loading page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" > > >button or link. Yours has none of this? > > > > Ah, I didn't wait long enough. Eventually the page

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 8:42 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:13:15 -0700 > wes dijo: > > >The "problem loading page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" > >button or link. Yours has none of this? > > Ah, I didn't wait long enough. Eventually the page displays an

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:03:18 -0700 > John Meissen dijo: > > >It's possible that it's related to this: > > >Go to *"*about:preferences" > >In the General section, scroll down to the Network Settings panel, and > >press the Settings button. > >In the popup, scroll down and look for "Enable DNS

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:13:15 -0700 > wes dijo: > > >The "problem loading page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" > >button or link. Yours has none of this? > > Ah, I didn't wait long enough. Eventually the page displays an error > message. Here is one of them: > > Corrupted

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:15:26 -0700 wes dijo: >He stated that it works in Safe Mode, as well as Chromium works, so we >know it's not a system-wide DNS problem. However, Firefox does have an >overly complex DNS caching system which could be a point of failure, >so trying by IP address could be

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:03:18 -0700 John Meissen dijo: >It's possible that it's related to this: >Go to *"*about:preferences" >In the General section, scroll down to the Network Settings panel, and >press the Settings button. >In the popup, scroll down and look for "Enable DNS over HTTPS". It

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:54:04 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Try: ping www.google.com >To check that you DNS resolution works as it should. >If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if >Firefox is not stuck on DNS. PING www.google.com (172.217.14.196) 56(84) bytes of data. 64

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:13:15 -0700 wes dijo: >The "problem loading page" usually has more info on it, or a "Details" >button or link. Yours has none of this? Ah, I didn't wait long enough. Eventually the page displays an error message. Here is one of them: Corrupted Content Error

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Try: ping www.google.com > To check that you DNS resolution works as it should. > If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if > Firefox is not stuck on DNS. IP addresses in URL's almost always fail due to HTTP 2.0 virtual hosting using the string form of the URL to

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:57 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Try: ping www.google.com > To check that you DNS resolution works as it should. > If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if > Firefox is not stuck on DNS. > > > He stated that it works in Safe Mode, as well as

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Meissen
That should be "about:preferences". On 8/21/19 8:03 PM, John Meissen wrote: Go to *"*about:preferences" ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Meissen
It's possible that it's related to this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/ Oh, sorry, I guess you can't see that. ;-) Go to *"*about:preferences" In the General section, scroll down to the Network Settings panel, and press the Settings button. In

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Try: ping www.google.com To check that you DNS resolution works as it should. If it pings try to put their IP to Firefox as an address to check if Firefox is not stuck on DNS. Better be sure about this before wasting a lot more time. You could also try to reinstall Firefox and remove it's

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:34 -0700 (PDT) > "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: > > >This is a long shot, but I am seeing some odd behavior from FireFox > >on FreeBSD after my FreeBSD 12.0 release update, and in normal mode > >firefox does indeed seem to hang on almost everything, but if I > >open a

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:34:34 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" dijo: >This is a long shot, but I am seeing some odd behavior from FireFox >on FreeBSD after my FreeBSD 12.0 release update, and in normal mode >firefox does indeed seem to hang on almost everything, but if I >open a second tab, go to

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:18:39 -0700 wes dijo: >> Either Firefox or the security updates has made Firefox unusable. It >> launches and appears to run fine, but no web pages can find the >> internet. >What is the specific error you get when you launch Firefox in normal >mode and try to browse to a

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Last Sunday at the Clinic I did a dist-update on my Xubuntu 16.04 - an > update, not an upgrade to 18.04. After rebooting everything works > perfectly, except Firefox. The update installed a new version of Firefox > so I now have Firefox Quantum 68.02 64-bit, 'Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu >

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread wes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 5:05 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > Last Sunday at the Clinic I did a dist-update on my Xubuntu 16.04 - an > update, not an upgrade to 18.04. After rebooting everything works > perfectly, except Firefox. The update installed a new version of Firefox > so I now have Firefox

[PLUG] Firefox or security problems

2019-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
Last Sunday at the Clinic I did a dist-update on my Xubuntu 16.04 - an update, not an upgrade to 18.04. After rebooting everything works perfectly, except Firefox. The update installed a new version of Firefox so I now have Firefox Quantum 68.02 64-bit, 'Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1.0.'