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Killswitch Failure - Issue #8826 Remains prevalent after update to v2.20 #9174

Open Bobinsz opened 6 months ago

Bobinsz commented 6 months ago

Please see Issue #8826

After updating to 2.20.0 (2.202401231837), this issue remains a problem. When the popup occurs stating "Network failure" choose a new location, the VPN releases all control of the network connection and all traffic defaults back to unprotected traffic.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Bug

data-sync-user commented 6 months ago

➤ Santiago Andrigo commented:

Adding 3 points as the default for any bug

Bobinsz commented 5 months ago

I'm glad to see that this issue has been escalated and has now been assigned to someone from Mozilla, who appears to be a specialist "Code Reviewer".

This may or may-not be helpful, but I felt I didn't include as much detail in my follow-up bug report as I should have, relying mainly on the referral to #8826

Please be advised that going from: v2.19.0 (2.202311270624) to v2.20.0 (2.202401231837), there has been a noticeable reduction in the frequency of the failure popup "Network Failure - Choose a New Location"

But the underlying issue is still there, when that popup occurs, the VPN releases all control of the network connection and all traffic defaults back to unprotected traffic, as if no VPN was being used & without any user interaction.

I hope this additional information is useful

Many Thanks

Bobs

Bobinsz commented 1 month ago

My confidence in the VPN has risen, after reading through the steps coders and code reviwers have been taking... with Logical reasoning and what seems to be a thorough look at what was causing the Kill-Switch to deactivate and allow the net connection to revert to unprotected traffic, without user interaction.

I've continued to have the occational complete discconnection, with the pop-up server unavaiable whilst running 2.22.1 (2.202405141843) )

If i'm honest, as a user I'm actually more frustrated by the connection timer changes that have occured over the past few updates... The "Secure & Private" timer no longer resets upon a reconnection attempt... and seems to just show the Total time the VPN has been active for.

I've had unstable traffic whilst using the VPN, without the Kill-Switch failure that I initially raised... but at a simple glance, there isn't an easy way to see if the VPN is constantly trying to establish a stable connection with this new "Secure & Private" timer behaviour.

Bobinsz commented 1 month ago

P.S When I suffer from an unstable connection... my actual net connection is 100% fine... It's the VPN connections that are unstable for some reason. Deactivating the VPN results in perfect net traffic, but its not how I want my net traffic to be, open to the world... Hence my signing upto the Mozilla VPN, virtually at launch, with continuity in sub until today!