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I don’t have any great suggestions, but a few things come to mind:
Did you try it in private browsing mode?
Did you try an older version of Firefox?
Can you set up a proxy and configure Firefox to use it?
Can you find Firefox’s logs on that machine and analyze them?
Can you try it from another machine that has Firefox on it?
Can you run Firefox in a container and see if that works?
Private browsing has no effect. Cannot connect, no packets observed in Wireshark. What are these logs that you might suggest viewing? There's a console, but I didn't observe any relevant long messages.
I downloaded an older version from three months ago and it cannot load the page on the test machine. A arbitrarily-tested older version wasn't compatible with my Mac.
I tried Firefox on another machine (Linux) and it can load the page no problems. Sadly, I don't have a second Mac to test if it's a Mac thing, but then why this IP? Seems strange to me.
If I use an SSH tunnel to direct localhost:8000 to 192.168.0.2:80 using a third box as a go-between, it connects just fine. Enter it directly in the address bar and no dice. Cannot connect.
Thank you for the suggestions! I'm stumped. I can work around it, but it's really weird and it would be nice to know why it doesn't like this IP.
You’re welcome! Can you change the IP of the target host?
Hmm, that's a reasonable thing to test. Sadly, this Linksys router doesn't allow changing the IP in bridge mode. It will be the subnet mask ending in .2. It's really lame to be limited in such a way, but nearly all settings are disabled in bridge mode.
This browser cannot access the router settings. Other browsers and devices can. It's very odd that it seems unable to communicate to this IP.
I can live with this, but it really makes me wonder why.