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Newest Firefox hasn't been able to load Twitter for the last 3 hours - anyone know if this is an issue with Firefox or Twitter (Google Chrome loads it fine)

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For the last three hours, Twitter hasn't updated and whenever I refresh it just hangs and does nothing. I logged out and logged in and get nothing. I have also cleared/cleaned everything out of the history/cache and still no joys. If I start a new tab and enter the address it just sits there saying 'Connecting..."

I have managed to get it to load fine in Google Chrome and via the official Twitter app for Android.

For the last three hours, Twitter hasn't updated and whenever I refresh it just hangs and does nothing. I logged out and logged in and get nothing. I have also cleared/cleaned everything out of the history/cache and still no joys. If I start a new tab and enter the address it just sits there saying 'Connecting..." I have managed to get it to load fine in Google Chrome and via the official Twitter app for Android.

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Twitter is working fine for me as well. Try to clear your cache in Firefox, see if that helps. Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should

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Twitter is working fine for me as well. Try to clear your cache in Firefox, see if that helps. Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should

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As I have already said i my original post I have cleared everything in firefox, including the cache.

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See:

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I'm not sure what caused it but when I went back on after posting this Twitter has since worked fine. Thanks for the help though!