Resolving Browsing Problems with FireFox

[amirm]

The latest version of FireFox with DuckDuckGo has a bug when browsing certain pages here. It will error out with redirection message. Fortunately there is a quick fix. While browsing our forum, simply pull up the options and disable "Site Privacy Protection."

Please report the problem to DuckDuckGo. They need to investigate why this is happening as it is random and at their end. If they respond and say the problem is ours, please let me know.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Or switch to StartPage in place of DuckDuckGo.

 

[AudiOhm]

Lucky for me I have never used "DuckDuckGo".

Ohms

 

[chuckt62]

Or switch to StartPage in place of DuckDuckGo.

And Brave browser

 

[Blumlein 88]

And Brave browser

Yes, Brave Browser is very good and my alternate to Firefox. Chrome based so it doesn't break websites, but some privacy controls so it isn't built to suck up all your information.

 

[Yasuo]

Reported, I'm using FF and this started happening a couple of months ago.

On pages with problems if I open them in a new private window, they work just fine (but obviously I'm not logged in) while having all the extensions enabled.

 

[Sal1950]

Lucky for me I have never used "DuckDuckGo".

Me either.
What do you want for nothing, rubber chickens?

 

[odarg64]

Weird. I use abrowser, a rebranded version of Firefox included with some GNU/Linux distributions, with strict privacy protections enabled, along with DuckDuckGo. Latest version. No issues on ASR or elsewhere.

 

[AurekV]

To clarify to anyone reading because I found the original post a bit confusing in its wording:
The problem is not with Firefox (I'm using it just fine). It is with the "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" extension on Firefox. I don't use the extension but I imagine that since extensions work similarly and use shared codebases between Chromium based browsers (like Chrome) and Gecko based browsers (like Firefox) the same problem may happen with DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials on Chrome as well.

I don't know what blocklists they are using but it could be a problem caused by one of those. Of course it is still DuckDuckGo's problem to fix that upstream as it wouldn't be apparent to any typical user where the blocks what the source of the blocking is when using their extension.

 

[formdissolve]

I don't see this issue on Mac, running the latest OS and latest version of Firefox and DuckDuckGo extension installed. Will test Windows tomorrow.

 

[martijn86]

Just to let you know. I'm using a Privacy hardened browser based on Firefox. It is called Mull (or Mulch if I need something Chromium based and Librefox on Desktop). I run my own DNS over TLS server with privacy and security focused blacklists. If there was any reason for concern using ASR, I would likely run into a block. So to reconfirm, this strongly suggests a bug or false positive at DDG's privacy extension. If you enable Firefox's own tracking protection, there should be no reason to be concerned when visiting ASR.

 

[martijn86]

@amirm Did you report an issue on their GitHub page? https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension

 

[kzar]

Dave from DuckDuckGo here. We'd like to fix this for you but we can't reproduce the problem.

Is there any chance you could provide us with some concrete steps to follow in order to trigger the problem? Also, please could you let us know the version of your Operating System, Firefox and the DuckDuckGo extension you've got installed? Finally, please could you confirm if you have any other browser extensions installed, and if so which ones?

Thanks for the help!

 

[diddley]

Me either.
What do you want for nothing, rubber chickens?

The Blues Brothers!

 

[tmtomh]

Dave from DuckDuckGo here. We'd like to fix this for you but we can't reproduce the problem.

Is there any chance you could provide us with some concrete steps to follow in order to trigger the problem? Also, please could you let us know the version of your Operating System, Firefox and the DuckDuckGo extension you've got installed? Finally, please could you confirm if you have any other browser extensions installed, and if so which ones?

Thanks for the help!

Nothing to add about the problem - just want to say it’s very cool that you joined the forum to help troubleshoot. Thanks!

 

[anphex]

I am confused. Why aren't there any measurements?

I want to know the Firefox SINAD!

 

[formdissolve]

Dave from DuckDuckGo here. We'd like to fix this for you but we can't reproduce the problem.

Is there any chance you could provide us with some concrete steps to follow in order to trigger the problem? Also, please could you let us know the version of your Operating System, Firefox and the DuckDuckGo extension you've got installed? Finally, please could you confirm if you have any other browser extensions installed, and if so which ones?

Thanks for the help!

1) I tested this on the latest version of Mac OS Monterey (M1 chip), clean FF install with DDG as the only extension.. couldn't reproduce the issue on any page on the site.
2) Also reviewed latest FF version on Windows 10 (whatever the latest updated is), with DDG extension and no issue. Added HTTPS Everywhere and uBlockorigin to the mix (all three running) and no issue.
3) I'd try it on Browserstack but not sure I can install extensions there

 

[danadam]

Dave from DuckDuckGo here. We'd like to fix this for you but we can't reproduce the problem.

Is there any chance you could provide us with some concrete steps to follow in order to trigger the problem? Also, please could you let us know the version of your Operating System, Firefox and the DuckDuckGo extension you've got installed? Finally, please could you confirm if you have any other browser extensions installed, and if so which ones?

Thanks for the help!

OS: Debian Testing
Firefox: 103.0.2 (same on 104)
DuckDuckGo: 2022.8.9

• start with clean profile,
• add the extension,
• go to https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...iers-phono-preamp-and-analog-audio-review.13/
• if it loads (it happened once right after restart), try to reload

The result is "The page isn’t redirecting properly" page. In the console I see 7 requests getting "301 Moved Permanently" response:

GET /forum/index.php?forums/amplifiers-phono-preamp-and-analog-audio-review.13/ HTTP/3
Host: audiosciencereview.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Alt-Used: audiosciencereview.com
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-GPC: 1

HTTP/3 301 Moved Permanently
date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:20:13 GMT
content-type: text/html
location: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?forums/amplifiers-phono-preamp-and-analog-audio-review.13/
x-powered-by: centminmod
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=MRW55maLFM3xB3SMMqhu4b7FwAjFCRPAvBRWvLM8dkEgc30dKGbeSZFx0AGszsYOh1adclzHmJTOHEXCF%2BF75SsPgN4bfEhdyEQetUPK9PDCWC6o6KM4T5gmYxx3HsaNlyJU1nvktAT8"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel: {"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
server: cloudflare
cf-ray: 73fe71aa8dde1e5d-MUC
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400

and then the error:

GET /forum/index.php?forums/amplifiers-phono-preamp-and-analog-audio-review.13/ undefined
Host: audiosciencereview.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Alt-Used: audiosciencereview.com
Connection: keep-alive

EDIT: Ooh, and then when I disable "Site Privacy Protection", I get an empty request and a successful HTTP/1.1 request, when before it was HTTP/3:

GET /forum/index.php?forums/amplifiers-phono-preamp-and-analog-audio-review.13/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.audiosciencereview.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: xf_csrf=XEogDYCEsTwjhXIC

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:45:09 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-options: nosniff, nosniff
last-modified: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:45:09 GMT
expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
cache-control: private, no-cache, max-age=0
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by: centminmod
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=aqH6s%2BSso0j65GkTh8%2BukpK1WiPXMWGVOn8zQT4t2xgipYvdNqB%2BGCJ6lp9eV8PFOYZyuXgil1PvKqSd%2FEfZFqZQhjcyN%2Bs8TGY8C1ZiaDspEJ1kyv1nhHj25DoMjr%2BqbE9yCQHCcBq3Tw%2FaVA%3D%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
nel: {"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
server: cloudflare
cf-ray: 73fe96314dba0dfe-MXP
content-encoding: br
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400
X-Firefox-Http3: h3

 

[Everett T]

Opera, since 2001

 

[restorer-john]

I’ve had to turn off my DDG privacy essentials on this site, due to the re-direct problem with ASR.
Will try to reproduce the issue this morning.