[solved] firefox 88.0.1 stopped loading MEWE site [Solved]

[Eadwine Rose]

Loads light lightning here, I guess the region matters *shrug*

[GuiGuy]

Loads light lightning here, I guess the region matters *shrug*

Loads like lightning in UK too.

BTW how can they survive without charging?

[figueroa]

BTW how can they survive without charging?

When things services are free, you may be the product; no matter what they say.

[dolphin_oracle]

let's focus on the problem here folks, not the business model.

[Real]

It's a constant battle of browser vs. the network to figure out which one to use and which one gives you problems on any given site. I've noticed constant issues with firefox and it's variants, incl. waterfox and firefox-esr. My default browser right now is Librewolf's appimage v89. You can't just run your main browser without any protections or settings configuration and then use it for everything. Not wise imo. In any case LibreWolf is, imo, more secure than the std firefox/waterfox out of the box and is as well less network frenzied. With mewe it connects to mewe.mewe, cdn.mewe, secure.mewe, and hpcaptcha.com, and then loads the page seemingly correctly. I'm not going to use it any further than that.
I also use Falkon for some other sites for which my heightened security main browser LibreWolf simply won't work with. Usually video sites or others, though not youtube which works fine. Even then I end up using torbrowser for still others which neither librewolf nor falkon will load correctly, don't ask me why. I really don't care.
Vpn or not the internet is a catch as catch can affair. If a single site is mandatory just use a single browser that does work and leave it's settings and addons alone. No addons nothing and use it just for that purpose if need be. I've used a ton but right now I'm down to just 3, Librewolf, falkon, and torbrowser and I can get everything done and still maintain a sense of security and somewhat privacy.
On a side note, I really like basilisk but it seems to not only want to go to a specific address at start which if blocked renders it useless, but no matter what I do, it opens 2 instances. I had to delete it. I think the dev is monitoring it's useage but really I got tired of the 2 instance nonsense. I have never seen that before.

[Eadwine Rose]

Uhm.. how exactly is this whole opinion piece helpful to getting the firefox browser to work for the TS?

[paul1149]

I'm not sure what Debug Mode is in FF, but in Vivaldi the first thing I would do is open a Guest window, which turns off all extensions. But I think you've got that covered. The next thing I would do is rename the Default profile folder, which forces Vivaldi to create a new one. Very often the problem is there; if not, you've got a FF problem, proper. Again, I'm not sure if FF handles user profile folders the same way.

[Real]

Mewe is an interesting site to be sure. I'm sure there is a browser you could install or reinstall clean that would work. Firefox is too set on it's own push services for me to suggest it as a daily driver for anything. Chromium, brave, just use what works. Not a big deal. Main thing is you can login and use the site. There are quite a few browsers that should work fine. If not it's your own network configuration which is highly doubtful.

[LionelZaylan]

@galen mewe.com loads fast here in Kerala, India
Try launching firefox with a new , clean profile just for testing ( and then delete that profile after use )
Clearing ~/.cache may also be useful

Type ( or copy-paste ) this in a terminal

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rm -rf ~/.cache ; mkdir ~/.cache
PROFILEDIR=/tmp/testing-clean-firefox-profile.$(head --bytes 40 /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 ; echo "" )
mkdir $PROFILEDIR
firefox --profile $PROFILEDIR --no-remote --private-window mewe.com
rm -rf $PROFILEDIR

If mewe.com works , just use a different firefox profile for mewe.
( That is also one of the best options for such a website that may treat you as though you were their product )

[galen]

solved
but unknown how
not DNS
not cache
not extensions

might have been something with
http which was 301 moved
and
https which was available on other browsers and curl
firefox might have detected something odd and just blocked further loading