Websites aren't loading at all - circle is just constantly spinning

This has only started happening the past week or so. As the question says, no websites on Firefox load and instead continue the circle spinning. This doesn't affect any other web browsers, and there's no Malware nor Java affecting anything.
Right now it's the weirdest because I have just turned on my computer, I loaded up a couple of websites, downloaded a (safe) file and now it's stopped working with the above results. I've tried clearing my history, deleting cookies and clearing my cache but so far nothing. I had this happen before a week or so ago but closing Firefox from the processes panel on Windows seemed to do the trick, as it has again here.
Any ideas?

It is possible that your security software (firewall, anti-virus) blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/fix-problems-connecting-websites-after-updating

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