[opensuse] Firefox throwing network wobblies
Leap 15.1. FF 68.1.0esr from the update repo. Firefox has started behaving rather dumb with regards to the available Internet connection. This is on my laptop, so if I haven't plugged in the ethernet cable, and since I don't have any wifi connection set to connect automatically, I'll open Firefox and most pinned tabs produce server not found errors, as would be expected. But then I connect the wifi and try refreshing the tabs, and it fails to recognize there is now a connection. I have to close and reopen the browser to get it to connect. Sometimes the behaviour is more weird and esoteric. I'll be watching a YouTube video in one tab with a wifi connection active. The video will continue streaming to the end and I can continue to navigate within that tab, but all the other tabs have given up and won't search for the network. A restart is again required. I suspect this may be a missing configuration somewhere in my user home directory, because this is following on from the problem I had on this system with a defunct hard drive. I kept the root configuration but replaced the disk that had /home on it, then copied the skeleton to each user home. Though I'm in the process of copying bits and bobs of data over from backups, I'm not copying an entire /home backup and have started a new profile in Firefox. It's possible there's some network configuration in my home directory which was lost and isn't hence informing Firefox correctly of the current network state. I can't be sure yet if other applications are doing the same because I've not yet really started using any others to any great degree. Firefox had no such problem switching between wired and wireless networks before the hard disk failure. Network Manager is running and configured via the Plasma nm applet. All the network entries were retained somewhere in root so I didn't need to redo them under the new user home. But is there another missing network config file that ought to be in my home directory? gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
In data mercoledì 6 novembre 2019 20:27:59 CET, gumb ha scritto:
Leap 15.1. FF 68.1.0esr from the update repo.
Firefox has started behaving rather dumb with regards to the available Internet connection. This is on my laptop, so if I haven't plugged in the ethernet cable, and since I don't have any wifi connection set to connect automatically, I'll open Firefox and most pinned tabs produce server not found errors, as would be expected. But then I connect the wifi and try refreshing the tabs, and it fails to recognize there is now a connection. I have to close and reopen the browser to get it to connect.
Sometimes the behaviour is more weird and esoteric. I'll be watching a YouTube video in one tab with a wifi connection active. The video will continue streaming to the end and I can continue to navigate within that tab, but all the other tabs have given up and won't search for the network. A restart is again required.
I suspect this may be a missing configuration somewhere in my user home directory, because this is following on from the problem I had on this system with a defunct hard drive. I kept the root configuration but replaced the disk that had /home on it, then copied the skeleton to each user home. Though I'm in the process of copying bits and bobs of data over from backups, I'm not copying an entire /home backup and have started a new profile in Firefox. It's possible there's some network configuration in my home directory which was lost and isn't hence informing Firefox correctly of the current network state.
I can't be sure yet if other applications are doing the same because I've not yet really started using any others to any great degree. Firefox had no such problem switching between wired and wireless networks before the hard disk failure.
Network Manager is running and configured via the Plasma nm applet. All the network entries were retained somewhere in root so I didn't need to redo them under the new user home. But is there another missing network config file that ought to be in my home directory?
gumb I experienced a problem like that recently, but a start of a new tab with loading data from any page fixes it. My wlan is also no so stable as before (an usb dongle: ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N10 Nano 802.11n Network Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]) however I thought it would be related with my provider and with the fact that maybe the fritzbox I am using has precise dns providers set. It would be nice to know if you changed the settings for dns in about:config Also if you are using a particular DNS provider as some have issues from time to time. You should also make sure to load FF without any extension. I had an issue with an extension for anonymization. I experience since some weeks severe slow downs during page loading and very often after this, a breakage for disconnect of wlan. Did you look at journalctl or dmesg to see if there are wlan problems? I could also be that the firmware of the wlan makes trouble. Which chipset do you use for wlan?
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On 07/11/2019 19:52, stakanov wrote:
I experienced a problem like that recently, but a start of a new tab with loading data from any page fixes it. My wlan is also no so stable as before (an usb dongle: ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N10 Nano 802.11n Network Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU]) however I thought it would be related with my provider and with the fact that maybe the fritzbox I am using has precise dns providers set. It would be nice to know if you changed the settings for dns in about:config Also if you are using a particular DNS provider as some have issues from time to time. You should also make sure to load FF without any extension. I had an issue with an extension for anonymization. I experience since some weeks severe slow downs during page loading and very often after this, a breakage for disconnect of wlan. Did you look at journalctl or dmesg to see if there are wlan problems? I could also be that the firmware of the wlan makes trouble. Which chipset do you use for wlan?
I received an off-list reply with a link to an unresolved bug that seems likely to be the same issue:
Hi there
You probably experience an old bug:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108163
Since there has not been any progress so far, it would be nice if you could add your experience.
Regards
Frank
I'll hold back a little before adding to the bug because I'm still not back up and running permanently on that machine so can't test it in any greater depth. I've not changed DNS settings. As far as I'm aware my DNS provider is my French ISP, one of the country's largest. They may not be the best, I've seen one or two occasions that DNS has gone down, but the workaround for the behaviour I'm seeing is reproducible just by restarting the browser normally, so it's unlikely to be a DNS issue. I've not checked logs or tried disabling extensions. Might look into that when I'm on the machine again full-time. The wireless is Intel AC 9260. Prior to the hard drive failure, whilst I didn't have this particular issue, there were a couple of other things. After I bought a cheap-ish USB dock with ethernet, the wired connection through there crapped out two or three times in a week. And some annoying page-caching quirk has started developing on Firefox in recent months, whereby it keeps pulling an out-of-date cached version of a page despite me having refreshed and updated it many times. But I'm seeing that on other systems running other OS's too. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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