After updating to Firefox 81, some users reported, they can’t access the twitter website and receiving a “network protocol violation that cannot repair” error The only way to make Twitter work on Firefox was to visit about servicewokers page and unregister Twitter SW. Here, Firefox’s “Strict Tracking Protection” has broken Twitter. Mozilla has identified the issue and now fixed the incompatibility with the Twitter website with Firefox 81.0.2 minor release.
Firefox 81.0.2
Here is what happened:
Firefox offers three tracking Protection modes: Standard, Custom, and Strict, with the former being the default.
Starting Firefox 81,
If you set Tracking Protection to Strict in Privacy and Security, then the Twitter website doesn’t load and displays the following error to users:
“oops
The site at https://twitter.com/… has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the data transmission was detected. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.”
Here there are workarounds available to make twitter work again.
Workarounds
- Click on the lock icon in the address bar and clear “Cookies and Site data”
Or
- Visit about:serviceworkers
- Click on the Unregister button for twitter Service Worker.
You don’t need to follow the above workarounds as Firefox 81.0.2 scheduled to arrived today on October 13 is going to fix the issue:
Release notes:
- Fixed an incompatibility with Twitter.com manifesting itself with thge intermittent display of a network protocol violation error page.
As of writing, version 81.0.2 is available on Mozilla FTP servers. The update will be available as a manual download and via internal update once Firefox 81.0.2 release notes is available.
Are you affected by this Twitter’s issue on Firefox? How you’ve solved it? Let us know in the comments below.
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