A Problem with Firefox in High Sierra

On my 2013 MacBook Air (i7 CPU, 8GB RAM, 500 GB internal SSD) I upgraded to MacOS 10.13 then to 10.13.1. It reformatted my drive as APFS as expected. And in Firefox I repeatedly got this error when going to a new page from the top of a website like New York Times or LA Times:

"The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies."

I had pre-tested 10.13 using a beta test external SSD I use for such purposes -- and retested with that drive this morning. That drive did not reformat as APFS but was in HFS+. And no such issue occurred.

This morning I booted from another SSD which I had pre-formatted as APFS and backed up MacOS 10.13.1 to (using Carbon Copy Cloner) and the same error occurs consistently.

As a result I used my CCC backup of my last Sierra OS state to return this machine to MacOS 10.12.6 and there I will stay until I know more. Firefox (or Waterfox, which does the same thing in HIgh Sierra on APFS) are to central to my way of using this computer, and I don't particularly like Safari.

Based on my work with external SSDs it would seem the APFS file system might be the issue for some reason. In any case no other app I tried exhibited any flaws.

Has anyone else seen this issue? Does anyone have a solution? I'd like to be using High Sierra on this computer, but cannot so long as this problem persists.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13), null

Posted on Nov 3, 2017 10:10 AM

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dialabrain

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Nov 3, 2017 1:18 PM in response to w7ox

You're welcome.

w7ox Author

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Nov 4, 2017 12:35 AM in response to dialabrain

Now happily running MacOS 10.13.1 again, and with no issues -- thanks to you and this forum.

Phil

dialabrain

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Nov 4, 2017 2:37 AM in response to w7ox

Good to hear.

Nov 3, 2017 10:27 AM in response to w7ox

Have you been getting a Notification from Mozilla recently to update to 53.0.2? I have been getting them, and haven't clicked on install yet because my version is already 53.0.2. But when I went to the Firefox site, it indicated that that this 53.0.2 was released on 10/26, but I hadn't downloaded it yet, so I believe that is what has been running on my Mac for awhile (I'm not on High Sierra).

This is the list of bug fixes that Mozilla has listed for the 10/26 version of 53.0.2:

56.0.2

Firefox Release

October 26, 2017

Version 56.0.2, first offered to Release channel users on October 26, 2017

Fixed

Fix for shutdown crash (Bug 1404105)
Correct detection for 64-bit GSSAPI authentication (Bug 1409275)
Fix for video-related crashes on Windows 7 (Bug 1409141)
Disable Form Autofill completely on user request (Bug 1404531)
Reference link to 56.0.1 release notes

Do you think the fix for the second bullet might resolve your issue? If I am completely off the mark, my apologies, but I thought I would mention that.

Oh, sorry, I just realized that it must have updated when I went to the "About" screen, but for some reason I'm still getting the notifications. Weird. But if you are not on 56.0.2, it might help to update it.

Cheers,

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A Problem with Firefox in High Sierra