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Slow TLS handshake

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Slowshake
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Hello,

In the past few weeks Firefox has started experiencing painfully slow TLS handshakes to websites, upwards of 30 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, it could be websites I've never visited before, maybe once a while back, or 3 minutes ago. It's also intermittent, it might work fine for 2 hours, maybe even a whole day, then suddenly it does it with what feels like every website and content linked to that site from other sites.

I've tried disabling all addons, with no success. When it does happen I've tried accessing the website with another browser, which handles it just fine, so it doesn't appear to be the websites.

Anyone know what could cause this and possibly fix it?

Thank you in advance.

Hello, In the past few weeks Firefox has started experiencing painfully slow TLS handshakes to websites, upwards of 30 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, it could be websites I've never visited before, maybe once a while back, or 3 minutes ago. It's also intermittent, it might work fine for 2 hours, maybe even a whole day, then suddenly it does it with what feels like every website and content linked to that site from other sites. I've tried disabling all addons, with no success. When it does happen I've tried accessing the website with another browser, which handles it just fine, so it doesn't appear to be the websites. Anyone know what could cause this and possibly fix it? Thank you in advance.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Try to disable IPv6

Slowshake
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Thank you, this seems to have solved the problem.

Slowshake
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I regret to come back to this thread, but the suggested solution has not fixed the problem. It went away for a while, but that must've just been in one of the random intervals where it works like it's supposed to...

Might there be any other solution to this?

Thank you.