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Today’s Firefox windows update broke windows 10 connection to the internet.

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This has happened to 5 individual computers updated at different times today. As each one updates it goes off line. LAN works fine but Firefox seems to have altered something in windows 10 OS that kills that individual computers connection to the internet.

This has happened to 5 individual computers updated at different times today. As each one updates it goes off line. LAN works fine but Firefox seems to have altered something in windows 10 OS that kills that individual computers connection to the internet.

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Some problems occur when your Internet security program was set to trust the previous version of Firefox, but no longer recognizes your updated version as trusted. Now how to fix the problem: To allow Firefox to connect to the Internet again;

  • Make sure your Internet security software is up-to-date (i.e. you are running the latest version).
  • Remove Firefox from your program's list of trusted or recognized programs. For detailed instructions, see

Configure firewalls so that Firefox can access the Internet. {web link}

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Some problems occur when your Internet security program was set to trust the previous version of Firefox, but no longer recognizes your updated version as trusted. Now how to fix the problem: To allow Firefox to connect to the Internet again;

  • Make sure your Internet security software is up-to-date (i.e. you are running the latest version).
  • Remove Firefox from your program's list of trusted or recognized programs. For detailed instructions, see

Configure firewalls so that Firefox can access the Internet. {web link}