Recently Firefox has stopped working whilst making online payments, at the final stage where usually there would be a final security check it fails, what is wrong?

Over the last week when trying to make online payments through several websites, Firefox has failed. In each instance I have completed all payments details and submitted. At this point usually a further screen appears that would ask me an additional security question - however this never appears, and therefore I have to start again - but no matter how many times I repeat the process it does the same thing.
The solution is to use another browser. Using the same website, transaction and card the purchase goes through.
The last website it occured on is listed below - but it happened last week on two different sites.

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