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I have been using FF on MacOS. Will checkout this. I moved from Chrome and finding this good so far. I face two issues though:

1. Switching on/off VPN would hamper the connectivity (sometimes only), not sure if this specific to my network

2. Responsiveness is an issue, key type response is slower. I will check if this new version helps.

Thanks FF team for your efforts.

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I have the VPN problem too. For me, it's a proxy thing. My company puts an HTTP proxy in-place inside of their VPN, and Firefox picks up the settings from MacOS.

When I disconnect from VPN, Firefox still has the VPN's proxy settings. I have to restart it to refresh Firefox's cached proxy settings. So that means I effectively have to restart Firefox any time I change between VPN and non-VPN.

If that's your problem too, then I don't have a fix for it. I'd love to hear if anybody else does though.

I do that, but have a "location" for home and work. I flip them when I get on/off my company network (VPN or on-prem).

I haven't had an issue with Firefox with that.

Are you doing something nicer than manually flipping location or going into the network settings and turning the proxy on/off?

Can you just have two Firefox users and dedicate one to work and personal?

You could also manually specify a DNS provider like Cloudflare or NextDNS on the personal user for DoH / DoT

Would something like this work for you? That's what I'm using to switch between proxies but I'm unsure how your VPN setup is done.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchyomega/

as someone with many tabs across many windows across many desktops/spaces, one weird trick i found is that when firefox starts up (on an intel MBP, 2019), it will churn CPU at over 100% until you go and foreground each of the windows in each of the workspaces. then the CPU usage becomes normal. perhaps it has to do with extensions like noscript or ublock origin, or my propensity to start firefox without internet access, but i don't think that matters here. not sure why this happens, but it's been required across at least the last few firefox restarts for me.

1 happens to me as well. And I even use the Mozilla VPN. I noticed it also happens with Cloudfare's Warp. Turning it on/off or even closing the display while they are active sometimes result in complete loss of connectivity when trying to interact with a tab again.

A lot of times, I have to close the current tab and open a new one to regain connectivity.

It is my only issue with Firefox on mac, currently.

Thought this was because of Mullvad! I also have this issue on FF with Linux Mint.

Mozilla VPN is a skin of Mullvad VPN I believe

In what cases did you notice key type response being slower than Chrome? I feel like you have to have pretty incredible spidey senses to detect that.

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