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Common Pages won't load on Firefox

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  • Last reply by FredMcD

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The message:

Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to orise.orau.gov. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

This web page ( https://orise.orau.gov/index.html ) as well as others have just refused to load ONLY on Mozilla Firefox 73.0 I accessed this page daily on Mozilla Firefox with zero problems until now. They do load on ALL other browsers however, I've always liked (past tense) Firefox and now it's driving me nuts. They do NOT load on any Firefox browser on tablets, phone, laptop, desktop. But do load on any other browser. But they did before. I have NOT changed anything other than Firefox updates. I do not have any extensions, add-ons. All applies to one internet provider and since the pages load on any other browser besides Firefox, I assume the problem is Firefox. I really liked Firefox until today. I'm at a loss, can anyone help with this, please? Thanks...

The message: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to orise.orau.gov. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. This web page ( https://orise.orau.gov/index.html ) as well as others have just refused to load ONLY on Mozilla Firefox 73.0 I accessed this page daily on Mozilla Firefox with zero problems until now. They do load on ALL other browsers however, I've always liked (past tense) Firefox and now it's driving me nuts. They do NOT load on any Firefox browser on tablets, phone, laptop, desktop. But do load on any other browser. But they did before. I have NOT changed anything other than Firefox updates. I do not have any extensions, add-ons. All applies to one internet provider and since the pages load on any other browser besides Firefox, I assume the problem is Firefox. I really liked Firefox until today. I'm at a loss, can anyone help with this, please? Thanks...

Modified by Dazed&Confused23

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Don't have any of them. Any other browser has ZERO problems loading that same page, but my once favorite browser, Firefox, all of a sudden, refuses to load pages that were once, last week loaded daily. I always used Firefox, had zero problems until this week. Any other browser on same devices has zero problems loading same pages. Firefox works on other pages, but not this one and a couple of other daily used, once accessible, but all of a sudden, not anymore, only on Firefox. Right now I'm using Firefox, but if I try a couple of "daily used webpages", they won't load as per OP.

Modified by Dazed&Confused23

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Make sure you are not blocking content.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop