Firefox stops loading pages seemingly at random, shows NS_BINDING_ABORTED, have to restart

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Firefox stops loading pages seemingly at random, shows NS_BINDING_ABORTED, have to restart - Lemmy.World

Sometimes I’ll be browsing Firefox and things go wrong seemingly at random - all pages load indefinitely or show a screen indicating failure to load. This can be fixed by running pkill firefox and then starting a new instance. A look at Dev Tools shows that all requests fail and a message NS_BINDING_ABORTED is shown. I have looked up “firefox NS_BINDING_ABORTED” but none of the results 1 [https://meta.discourse.org/t/mysterious-failure-ns-binding-aborted-when-upgrading/285203] 2 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/704561/ns-binding-aborted-shown-in-firefox-with-httpfox] 3 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64995222/getting-a-ns-binding-aborted-error-for-simple-get-request] 4 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64995222/getting-a-ns-binding-aborted-error-for-simple-get-request] 5 [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66137592/how-to-debug-typescript-ns-binding-aborted-for-post-requests] 6 [https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/20749] 7 [https://community.stape.io/t/error-ns-binding-aborted-events-are-not-send/143/7] provided any solution. Does anyone here know more about this issue? Firefox version information: Firefox Borwser 126.0 Mozilla Firefox for Arch LInux archlinux - 1.0

No idea if it’s related, but I see similar behaviour (the not loading, rather than the error message) whenever Firefox requires a restart for an update. It doesn’t make it clear this is what is happening, it just stops loading web pages in existing tabs. Only if I open a new tab does it show the “Restart to keep using” message.

I’ve spent far too much time diagnosing network issues without realising I just needed a restart :)

Yeah, I have also experienced this. Particularly annoying when I’m at work, waiting on emails to come in. Then I realize my email has been frozen in the background for 45 minutes, because Firefox silently froze all my tabs and needs to restart for an update.