I recently switched from Debian to Fedora Workstation. Everything works fine, even better under Fedora, except Firefox. There is this quirk, where whenever I wake up my system from suspension, and I try to search something, Firefox just shows a loading sign as if it was loading the page, but I see via the inspect tool that it isn’t even sending any HTTPS requests to the server. I know this problem specifically affects Firefox, because other programs that require an internet connection, such as fetching mail via Thunderbird or installing packages via DNF work completely fine. In order to get Firefox to actually work, I have to completely close and reopen the application, forcing me to lose unsaved work in some cases. I’ve tried everything, from restarting my machine to waiting to see if it will be patched in a future update, but nothing has gotten better. And before you tell me off, I have already asked on the Mozilla Support Forums, and the answers I have received suggest this is a Fedora-specific problem, which led me to post here to see if anyone else is having the same issue or can help. Please help me. If it helps, I am running the Flatpak version of Firefox 153.0.4 (64-bit) Thank you in advance.
Can you reproduce the problem with the pre-installed rpm version of Firefox?
I’ve never seen an issue like this. So it might be a flatpak specific issue.
what’s the source of the flatpak? Fedora flatpacks (registry/fedoraproject.org) or Flathub (dl.flathub.org) ?
This might be https, Firefox security cutting network access and won’t get back up until close and reopen. I have had this many times as suspend etc all traffic is cut and when login back needs to close open items and reopen to get back to internet. I run flatpak Firefox and happends always when suspend is up this affects also on VPN where I just need to reconnect VPN so might be something to do network manager and firewalls
The flatpak in question came from Flathub. I can’t seem to reproduce the problem because it seems to happen without any apparent pattern or conditions.