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Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Firefox: site login forms hanging

Following the recent pacman -Syu im having trouble logging into the likes of Gmail, ebay, and banking sites.
The login page loads, i fill in the details as normal, and then the page just sits there like the website has gone down.

the logins work from  Konqeror, and  Firefox on a Windows partition i have, but not from Firefox on any Arch PC's i upgraded last night.

Is anyone else having similar issues, or have a clue whats going on?
i noticed another post relating to a firefox patch but wasn't sure if its connected.

thanks

Kern

daeltar

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From: Czech Republic, Prague

Registered: 2003-10-22

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Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

Same problem.

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cactus

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Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

in about:config, do you guys have network.dns.disableIPv6 set to true or false?
You might try setting that to true, which disables ipv6 dns for firefox. I have found that speeds things up sometimes.

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Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

hi cactus, following your suggestion i  just toggled network.dns.disableIPv6  to true  and this solves the issue on this PC at least.
Will feedback on the other, but i cant see any reason for it not to be the same.

many thanks for the quick response, i simply wouldn't have got that without your help

cheers

Kern

Edit: me and my big mouth.
now wonder if its an intermittent problem as from the other Pc the IPv6 toggle doesnt solve the prob

bbl ....

Last edited by Kern (2007-05-16 15:29:29)

Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

ok final installation of the saga for me.
pacman -S firefox
pacman -Scc

download firefox tar.gz from getfirefox.com
install -
./firefox

all is good.
maybe the pkgbuild has foobarred someplace

thanks to those that replied.
Kern

oh, and the fonts have returned to normal size !

Last edited by Kern (2007-05-16 15:46:04)

nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

Flipping network.dns.disableIPv6 worked for me too, thanks.

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linuxinit

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From: Bumkcuf, Egypt

Registered: 2005-08-21

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Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

Mkay, I just did a system upgrade, and I too am having this problem, both on my workstation, and my laptop. Both of which use Arch.

It's not a problem with IPv6. I already had that disabled. It seems to be a problem with secure http sites. I can't get any to load with firefox now.

*edit*

After failing to load gmail, I just opened the google homepage. I am indeed logged in, but gmail refuses to load because it uses https.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7171

Last edited by linuxinit (2007-05-16 23:07:31)

cactus

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Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

looks like a problem with the firefox build..

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7171

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7168

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Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

link over to

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33085

for solutions

ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: Firefox: site login forms hanging

Seems fixed with today's build 2.0.0.3-3