On Mon, 23 May 2022 14:34:34 -0500 "Wamm K. D." <[email protected]> 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). > I remember seeing similar behaviour with Firefox on Arch, so it may not be Guix-specific. Also I think it's been reported earlier but since the search interfaces for the mailing lists kind of suck, it wouldn't be surprising if you didn't find it.
