When I click on a link from Google or type in a web address directly, invariably, Firefox tries to load the webpage and seems to hang.
However, when I click "stop" and then "reload" it almost always opens rights up to the webpage.
If I open IE and try the same webpage at the same time, it loads right away.
Any ideas?
A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that 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
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