Firefox browsing failure after upgrade to 126.0 (64-bit)
Firefox automatically updated itself to version 126.0 (64-bit) and it was unable to display any web sites.
First I disabled Mozilla VPN but that did not fix my issue. Next, I disabled Microsoft Defender firewall software to no effect.
Finally I updated the shortcut to Firefox on my taskbar to launch the browser. This fixed my issue.
Hopefully, this will save other users from the same pain.
Modified by NoahSUMO
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Thank you for your report. Did you un-pin and re-pin the shortcut, or did you have to make some kind of edits to it? If you could detail the steps, that would be helpful.
I unpinned the Firefox shortcut from the task bar and expected it to be somewhere on my desktop. It wasn't so I pinned a new shortcut from the Firefox executable back to the task bar.
Thanks. I wonder why the old one stopped working? Strange!
I wondered if the old version had a different executable name or was installed in a different folder.
No, on further reflection, that could not be it because the executable was launched.
IDK.