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Bug 1983093

Summary: after upgrade, Firefox 78.12.0-1.el8_4 refuses to load any web pages
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: jeff <jeffclay>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.4CC: jeffclay, quent.haas, tpopela
Target Milestone: betaFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Description jeff 2021-07-16 13:48:50 UTC
Description of problem:
Just upgraded from FF 78.11.0-3.el8_4 to 78.12.0-1.el8_4 via the rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms repository. After upgrade FF would not load any web pages. FF just flashes the content area like it's going to the site but just shows a blank white screen. The address bar still shows the address that was typed in.  

To troubleshoot, I:
disabled noscript plugin -> no effect
disabled ipv6 dns -> no effect
cleared all cache and cookies -> no effect
removed /home/user/.mozilla and /home/user/.cache/mozilla -> no effect
uninstalled FF removed dirs mentioned above and reinstalled FF -> no effect
reboot computer -> no effect

Finally, I ran 'dnf downgrade firefox' and it is working fine again.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
78.12.0-1.el8_4


How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade FireFox from 78.11.0-3.el8_4 to 78.12.0-1.el8_4
2.try to browse any web site.
3.

Actual results:
Unable to browse any web page. Just acts like it refreshed and you get a blank screen. Nothing is loading.

Expected results:
Load the desired web page.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Quentin Haas 2021-07-16 17:44:30 UTC
Same problem in RHEL 8.4 x86-64 for me, I had to downgrade.  Refreshing firefox, running it in safe mode, disabling all extensions, etc. didn't solve it, had to downgrade.

Comment 2 Tomas Popela 2021-07-19 05:29:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1983018 ***