Help trouble-shooting firefox https/http/something issues

cfr · 2014-01-12 03:45:06

I just wrote a very long post only to be told on trying to submit it that I did not have permission to access the page.

I am having various extremely frustrating issues in firefox.

Some of these seem to be profile or addon related but I cannot quite pin anything down.

With my default config:
1. I cannot post in any thread in the forums.
2. On tex.stackexchange.com, I cannot view many pictures in situ although I can view them in a new tab. These all seem to be hosted on http://i.stack.imgur.com.
3. If I login to the meta site for tex.stackexchange.com, I end up on the regular site for tex.stackexchange.com. Although I appear to be me when I go there, I cannot post or vote or anything. If I try to navigate to meta from the top bar menu, I get a warning from firefox that I can't trust the connection because the certificate is not valid for the domain with the "get me out of here!" button.
4. On SE's diagnostic site, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/network-login-help?, I get failures for both Messaging and Storage.
5. Disabling rules for sites in https everywhere doesn't help. Nor does disabling it completely and disabling the ssl observatory. When I do that, I still seem to get errors in ~/.xsession-errors:

SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:

With a clean profile in safe-mode:
1. I just lost a post when I tried to submit saying I had no permission to access the page.
2. If I try to navigate to meta from the top bar menu on tex.stackexchange.com, I get a warning from firefox that I can't trust the connection because the certificate is not valid for the domain with the "get me out of here!" button.
3. On SE's diagnostic site, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/network-login-help?, I get a failure for just Messaging.

One of the problems is that what works one moment seems to fail the next and I can't get any robust work around which survives, say, a restart of the browser even using a clean profile. It is driving me nuts. Some of this is documented in this thread. (I always find firefox issues confusing.)

I first had problems at the same time as being bitten by a https everywhere bug which prevented login on SE sites. However, although that seems to have been resolved, the issues aside from that persist for me.

I am not using Arch's build but the 64bit from Mozilla. However, this version (26) worked for some time before I started seeing issues so I doubt it is a firefox update issue per se.

Does anybody have any thoughts about whether I am seeing one or several issues? how best to individuate them? and how best to diagnose them?

In the past, firefox issues have generally been entirely addon related and it has just been a question of being systematic but while some of this might be addon related, there seems to be a basic issue independent of my profile and addons. At least, so it seems given the failures in safe-mode with a clean profile. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me not-so-slowly mad.

Last edited by cfr (2014-01-13 00:03:48)

cfr · 2014-01-13 00:11:03

With my default profile but in safe-mode:

1. I cannot post in the forums. (This is driving me especially nuts!)
2.. On SE's diagnostic site, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/network-login-help?, I get failures for both Messaging and Storage.

However, I can login to meta and I can view the images on tex.stackexchange.com in situ.

Does anybody have any idea what might be in my Firefox profile which would cause (1) and/or (2) even with addons all disabled? Or why I get an error for Messaging even in a clean profile?

WonderWoofy · 2014-01-26 16:43:03

I was wondering why I hadn't seen any posts from you for a while!

I had an issue just the other day that sounds kind of like this. I couldn't post things on the forums, I couldn't log into a number of internet services, and things were just all around failing. It took me a while of trying to debug my own local network to finally realize that it wasn't actually my problem. In an effort to just see if things were getting through, I tried a speed test site. The ping time and download speeds were normal, but my upload was working hardly if at all.

So I called comcast and was told to stop by the comcast store to trade in for a new cable modem. I got home and it magically worked great. In fact, there were several small issues I had with the last cable modem that were suddenly gone.

A grrr about the situation. I had to go pick up the cable modem because they told me it would be $15 to ship the new modem out to me, and I would also have to pay for a service appointment. The lady on the phone told me that comcast had recently made it so that they could not wave the fee for such things, despite the fact that it was their won hardware that was causing the problems. Then of course when I went to the comcast place I took a number and waited a good two hours for a two minute cable box trade. Thanks comcast, your customer service sucks.

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#1 2014-01-12 03:45:06

Help trouble-shooting firefox https/http/something issues

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