


Otherwise, ask Mozilla for support with their products. If you don't want to use Safari, consider starting Firefox in "Safe Mode": Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode | Firefox Helpįor Safari and Mac-specific concerns continue below. It's a function of the website, the browser, or its settings including Internet plug-ins, add-ons and similar user modifications. The circular page redirect is not caused by High Sierra per se and cannot possibly be caused by its file system. Has anyone else seen this issue? Does anyone have a solution? I'd like to be using High Sierra on this computer, but cannot so long as this problem persists. In any case no other app I tried exhibited any flaws. Firefox (or Waterfox, which does the same thing in HIgh Sierra on APFS) are to central to my way of using this computer, and I don't particularly like Safari.īased on my work with external SSDs it would seem the APFS file system might be the issue for some reason.

This morning I booted from another SSD which I had pre-formatted as APFS and backed up MacOS 10.13.1 to (using Carbon Copy Cloner) and the same error occurs consistently.Īs a result I used my CCC backup of my last Sierra OS state to return this machine to MacOS 10.12.6 and there I will stay until I know more. That drive did not reformat as APFS but was in HFS+. I had pre-tested 10.13 using a beta test external SSD I use for such purposes - and retested with that drive this morning. This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies." And in Firefox I repeatedly got this error when going to a new page from the top of a website like New York Times or LA Times:įirefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. It reformatted my drive as APFS as expected. On my 2013 MacBook Air (i7 CPU, 8GB RAM, 500 GB internal SSD) I upgraded to MacOS 10.13 then to 10.13.1.
