2036612 - Built-in VPN fails to connect in Nightly since May 1, 2026 build

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2036792

(Firefox :: IP Protection, defect)

Description

[Wolf]

Attachment: vpn.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Steps to reproduce:

Last working build: 2026-04-30 (Nightly)
First broken build: 2026-05-01 (Nightly)
Works fine in Firefox Beta.
New profile does not fix the issue.
Error shown: "Couldn't connect to VPN"
Counter resets to 50GB but connection fails.

Actual results:

Couldn't connect to VPN

Expected results:

connect to VPN

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::IP Protection' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

:baku, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 2034525, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?

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Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Possibly this is a dupe of bug 2036792?

Comment 4

[Andrea Marchesini [:baku]]

I confirm it's a dup of bug 2036792.