Firefox 61 breaks site?

When I updated to Firefox 61 I could no longer get onto the site. I tried Chrome and it isn’t the site Here is the msg:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.thurrott.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

  The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

  Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Conversation 13 comments

  • simont

    Premium Member
    26 June, 2018 - 5:07 pm

    <p>I am also using Firefox 61 but I am not getting an error messages on the site.</p>

  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    26 June, 2018 - 5:21 pm

    <p>I just updated Firefox on W8.1 and at first it didn't work and then after clicking retry once or twice it loaded. The original post was from my Windows 7 machine and it still isn't working properly.</p>

  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    26 June, 2018 - 5:43 pm

    <p> Did the same on my Windows 7 Laptop (old Sony Vaio) and it didn't load it but I clicked retry and it worked. Went back to the original offender and it took many attempts to get it to retry but it finally played nice and I reloaded Firefox 61 and it still worked. Very weird, only this site wouldn't load. Working OK now.</p>

  • ErichK

    Premium Member
    26 June, 2018 - 7:06 pm

    <p>Hmm, upgraded to 61 just now on W10 Spring Update, but no issues.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      27 June, 2018 - 8:43 am

      <blockquote><a href="#286454"><em>In reply to ErichK:</em></a></blockquote><p>Same here, on 61 on W10 1803, no issues.</p>

  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    27 June, 2018 - 12:38 pm

    <p> Did it again this morning on my Main Desktop, but when I clicked retry it sat there for a while then got into the site.</p>

  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    27 June, 2018 - 5:43 pm

    <p> Happened on my old Win7 machine in the back which is the 4th different machine with this error. 3 of 4 are Windows 7, 1 is W8.1….</p><p>Any thoughts on what this issue is?</p>

  • infloop

    Premium Member
    27 June, 2018 - 6:23 pm

    <p>After testing that the site works just fine with Firefox 61 on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, I did a search online and found this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8rilyj/ssl_error_rx_record_too_long/</p><p><br></p><p>It appears to be a problem with TLS 1.3 and AV vendors with their HTTPS scanning feature turned on being unable to handle TLS 1.3, as Firefox now uses TLS 1.3 where available, including on google.com and this site (it looks like Cloudflare has it turned on by default, which I believe this site uses).</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      28 June, 2018 - 3:33 am

      <blockquote><a href="#286702"><em>In reply to infloop:</em></a></blockquote><p>And I use the built-in Windows Defender and home and Kaspersky End Point Protection at work… I haven't had problems with either, all on Windows 10 though. </p>

    • Oasis

      Premium Member
      28 June, 2018 - 1:04 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#286702"><em>In reply to infloop:</em></a></blockquote><p>The two sites you mentioned were/are the only two sites I have had problems with. I didn't have issues this morning getting on here. I saw that TLS 1.3 in the release notes and wondered about it. Well now I know. Thanks for the headsup.</p>

  • MacLiam

    Premium Member
    28 June, 2018 - 1:11 pm

    <p>No errors with FF61 on Thurott.com (or any other website) here. I wish you success in solving your problem.</p>

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    29 June, 2018 - 1:02 am

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  • Oasis

    Premium Member
    11 July, 2018 - 2:51 pm

    <p> It solved itself, about 3 days after I got those messages it stopped doing it on all of my machines. I didn't change anything, teething pains?</p>

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