Firefox won't load home page on startup when it's GMail

I use Firefox (FF) and have the same home page as you (gmail), and I've noticed that behaviour shortly after the stories came out about the POODLE attacks, and I updated to FFv34, 34 is the version where FF disabled SSLv3 by default.

I looked at the SSL settings in about:config and there's too many to try and re-figure their settings for now so I went to TLS and bumped up both my security.tls.version.fallback-limit and security.tls.version.min from 1 to 2 and left the security.tls.version.max at 3. The reason I increased the first two is; As POODLE grew the talk around TLS was that TLS1 was close to being cracked.

I'm going to let the settings run for awhile and see if it helps and I'll post back after a few days or so. In the meantime what I do if gmail doesn't open and I get a blank tab is, go up to the home button on my bookmark bar, click once and gmail opens up.

Related Links:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/982368

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/688207

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1043677

Hi,
That is interesting I never thought to add gmail as a homepage :/
I've always just kept it as a favorites bar listing and If I want to stay logged in I simply check the box to remember me and make sure I don't delete the cookie
Never failed with or without ssl-3 disabled
Mind you this is with ie10 not Firefox
Cheers.

TZ,

I've always had my browsers set up to go to my email when opening that's what I like to check first thing, my email. It's just a matter of personal interests and preferences. I know of some users that are in the financial market so they have theirs open to their favorite trading house to get the latest on the stock markets. I believe having a personalized start tab is a lot better than a plain Jane IE or FF start tab.

I like many others in the related links I provided have no problems with IE10 or any other browser, and I along with others didn't have problems with FF until mozilla started locking down SSL in v34 of FF, and some users are having problems with various HTTPS sites not just gmail.


TIM (ThisIsMadness91),

You're welcome, so far it has although its only been a handful of times, It could be that https gmail won't send the proper authorization when TLS is lower than 2, usage and time will tell.
Some of the users in the related links are having success clearing their cache and cookies at every shutdown but that to me seems a bit drastic.
Mozilla tells you to re-enable SSL for those sites by going to Tools, Options, Advanced, Encryption, and then disable when off the site. that post was in 2010 and I'm not sure when that tab/setting disappeared but its long gone, anyways that's a bit drastic also, and as you have found, a restart of FF will fix it.

I still don't like all the true/false settings for FF's SSL settings in about:config, but I haven't found a reference to cross-check them to see if I want/need to change them, I know I'll get in touch with Callender he might know.

Would you try downloading these two add ons? You can remove them when they're no longer needed.

The two add ons in this post #7:

Untrusted connection paypal

Then choose the options in Post #9 in the same thread. Would you list the cipher suites as shown in these two images:

https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...paypal-rc4.jpg

https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...al-non-rc4.jpg

Other than that you can try a fresh install after backing up your profile. Details here:

Backup Firefox current profile:

Untrusted connection paypal

Remove Firefox:

Untrusted connection paypal

Reboot and reinstall Firefox. Run MozBackup to restore only your bookmarks and extensions.

Reason: Constantly updating Firefox can screw it up eventually.

Thanks Callender, I just stopped by to check my emails, will try to have answers by tomorrow.

BTW; gmail opened okay again.

An alternative to gmail home page?

Check out this software. It works okay:

Gmail Notifier Pro - Professional Gmail notifier for Windows

I have Gmail Notifier Pro installed and it will load a blank new tab page often.

kodi said:

I have Gmail Notifier Pro installed and it will load a blank new tab page often.

Is it possible to confirm the following?

SSL version and cipher suite used when connecting to Gmail via your browser:





Also any "New Tab" settings. Mine are like this:



Gmail Notifier Pro opens mail fine in my browser although I prefer to set it to read mail from within the application rather than launching a browser.

Edit:

So far it's opened gmail in my browser every time without problems.