From: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
To: "Wamm K. D." <jaft.r@outlook.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:04:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h7eRLoXOq4u_zRoQrNwnCxPZCi-h9B8r41tl4HtU8OSWbvjIZMI0oVfJ_YW-3mTjTuLtd-HWFlOBL7JIjMuV2o5g7_oGXIw0giYmZWjQVuY=@elenq.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR07MB7029196C0867F1BD403DDAA999D49@BY5PR07MB7029.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
Hi
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, May 23rd, 2022 at 9:34 PM, Wamm K. D. <jaft.r@outlook.com> wrote:
> I think it's happened most often with IceCat but pretty much every
> browser I've tried has done this.
>
> I'm not sure the cause but my Wi-Fi card drops the connection, /really/
> often; it sucks but it's what I've got.
>
> The consequence is that I've noticed a particular behavior relatively
> frequently: when the connection drops, the browser I'm using will get
> stuck thinking that it cannot connect to the internet once the internet
> connection comes back, sometimes (especially if I tried to load a page
> while the internet connection was down). Trying to load any other page
> results in the "Unable to Connect" (or equivalent) page.
>
> I've tried IceCat, Ungoogled Chromium, Qutebrowser, Luakit, and Nyxt and
> had the same experience, in some capacity, with all of them.
>
> Loading a local HTML file works fine, during these spells, and I either
> have to wait a variable length of time before the spell passes or
> restart the browser.
>
> It doesn't seem to be something which impacts all browsers, at the same
> time: opening a new browser after one gets affected works fine or trying
> to use one of the other browsers I had open (especially if I hadn't been
> using this other browser while the internet connection had dropped).
That's have been my experience with Icecat in the past and I think others
have mentioned this in the past too. I don't know where it comes from,
or if I still have the same issue, as my wifi is pretty stable nowadays.
I'm sure more people have experienced this. It's something we should fix
soonish.
Ideas anyone?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-23 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-23 19:34 Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period Wamm K. D.
2022-05-23 20:04 ` Ekaitz Zarraga [this message]
2022-05-23 20:07 ` raingloom
2022-05-23 21:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-05-23 21:45 ` raingloom
2022-05-24 5:49 ` Wamm K. D.
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