why should vpn interfere with browser updates but not system updates. have no snaps installed
System updates usually fetch packages via http, https, or even ftp from known mirrors.
Browser updates (Generally: Firefox) often use their own updaters and contact proprietary CDNs, signed endpoints, or region-locked domains.
If your VPN prevents geolocation, this can affect a region-locked domain.
There are many other ways... Including firewall affects, split tunneling, DNS resolution, proxy use...
To check, I would use TraceRoute to find where the packet loss occurs... But that is just my preferred method. There are many ways.
Getting Browser Upgrades:
If Firefox (Non-snap), you can try in terminal:
firefox --headless --jsconsole
If Brave or Chrome:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade brave-browser
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade google-chrome-stable
ok. try it next time it happen then. thanks
.... sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade brave-browser librewolf vivaldi-stable
anyways, anyone seeing this with software updater problem, a quick fix maybe, just turn off vpn
You might also try another endpoint. I have no problems with certain endpoints on my VPN, and others are shut out of a LOT of stuff, even among endpints both in the same country (US) and sometimes even same state.
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Yeah, thanks. Understand.
Consider that all your traffic is routed through the VPN server, which can then decide whether or not to block packets going to certain locations. Likewise, the destination server might decide that the source of the request (which, to their eyes would be the one from the VPN server location that you're routing traffic through) should be blocked.
PS: I've moved this to General Help
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