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.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it is 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 :)
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?
