Firefox stops loading pages seemingly at random, shows NS_BINDING_ABORTED, have to restart
Sometimes I'll be browsing Firefox and things go wrong seemingly at random - all pages load indefinitely or show a screen indicating failure to load. This can be fixed by running pkill firefox and then starting a new instance. A look at Dev Tools shows that all requests fail and a message NS_BINDING_ABORTED is shown. I have looked up "firefox NS_BINDING_ABORTED" but none of the results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 provided any solution.
Does anyone here know more about this issue?
Firefox version information:
Firefox Borwser 126.0
Mozilla Firefox for Arch LInux
archlinux - 1.0
I don't have time to browse all the tried solutions but this happens to me when my DNS gets wonky, especially systemd-resolved with dnssec enabled sometimes just stops resolving random domains, even with allow-downgrade.
Same. Otherwise it's dnscrypt on the router that's gone wonky.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it is DNS
But it is never DNS. ^It^ ^was^ ^dns^
No idea if it's related, but I see similar behaviour (the not loading, rather than the error message) whenever Firefox requires a restart for an update. It doesn't make it clear this is what is happening, it just stops loading web pages in existing tabs. Only if I open a new tab does it show the "Restart to keep using" message.
I've spent far too much time diagnosing network issues without realising I just needed a restart :)
Yeah, I have also experienced this. Particularly annoying when I’m at work, waiting on emails to come in. Then I realize my email has been frozen in the background for 45 minutes, because Firefox silently froze all my tabs and needs to restart for an update.
This failure essentially means there's an issue at either the DNS or TLS layers. I'd start looking at TLS, namely trusted root certs and OpenSSL.
Have you tried a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5) when this happens?
Before you do anything else do a full memtest on your RAM. Bad RAM sectors can affect apps in weird, seemingly unrelated ways.
Dns issues. Had similar with pihole before I configured it correctly.