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Add-on quietly drops connection and needs restart

The VPN add-on stops working partway through a session and needs a browser restart or reinstall to recover.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

12 public reports · first reported 3 October 2023 · last reported 2 August 2025

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Firefox users report that after a few minutes or hours the NordVPN add-on suddenly stops connecting, with all websites unreachable or the connection stuck in a grey state.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 12 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.