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Firefox loses internet connection

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Joe St.Onge
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I have a laptop that is left on 24/7. I also leave Firefox running. Multiple times everyday I Firefox loses internet connection and I have to force a shutdown and restart Firefox and then it works fine again. Any idea why this is occurring?

I have a laptop that is left on 24/7. I also leave Firefox running. Multiple times everyday I Firefox loses internet connection and I have to force a shutdown and restart Firefox and then it works fine again. Any idea why this is occurring?

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Joe St.Onge
Joe St.Onge Question owner
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My system, and the rest of my applications, work fine and do not lose internet connection. It is just FireFox

AMAN ARYAN
AMAN ARYAN
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Thanks, but after cleaning the cookies, I restarted firefox and issue continued. I can't disable McAffee as it requires admin privileges which I don't have.

So I tried another solution that I found. From command line:

ipconfig /release ipconfig /ipflushdns ipconfig /renew netsh int ip set dns netsh winsock reset restart PC

And today I just lost connection like 1-2times along the day, instead of losing it each 2-3 mins. Not sure if it was the cookies/history cleanup or the dns release, but fo far seems to be better for now. Thanks for the help!