One change I notice today is that before Gmail would show the yellow popup "retrying in 1:00" or "55 seconds" or whatever and when I would click "retry now" it would change the number of seconds to an even longer period instead of refreshing.
Today when I clicked Retry Now it loaded the page correctly.
Are there really only two of us users that are experiencing this issue?? or are there others who are not reporting it because they haven't figured out that it is an Avast problem, not a Firefox or Google bug?
Clearly, disabling Avast web shields corrects the issue immediately, and then the issue recurs when Avast is enabled. This proves it is something in Avast, does it not?
I am rarely logged into my Google account for a long time, so it is hard for me to observe the same behavior of Gmail.
However, I often use various Google services and very often when I try to use them they do not want to load.
As I mentioned earlier... If I try a new tab and enter
https://google.com, the page simply does not load, the app window from Google doesn't load either.
There is a white empty page but the URL address flashes in the address bar as if there was an attempt to load.
In addition, you can see the network traffic that was established and the browser itself in the inspection sees the get query to google.com but nothing is downloaded and displayed in the browser as if this traffic disappeared/hung for some reason in Avast.
Disabling Avast or transferring the browser traffic to an SSH tunnel so that Avast does not see it eliminates the problem. So it seems pretty certain that this is a problem with Avast and not something else.
Yes, maybe this is one of those strange situations that affects a very small % of people... And on this forum, as you can see, we are the only two people with such a problem.
Another thing is that these problems started somewhere around the last update, if I remember correctly.
They are strange because it only concerns Google services... So far, I have not noticed other addresses with a similar problem.
One thing that comes to mind is that in a similar period of time, Google announced the final blocking of ads in Chrome and that add-ons will not work... there was also some change with injecting ads on YouTube. But this should not have any effect on our situation. We use Firefox... I also checked clean installations of both several Firefoxes and Chrome itself without any add-ons and on the initial settings and the situation was the same.
Windows' fault also seems impossible because when we turn off Avast or wrap the browser's network traffic in a tunnel it works fine, so it's almost certain that Avast is causing such problems.
But why only with Google and why only with us two... I don't know hmmmm
