Just found your follow-up message, after I'd replied to the first one.
Allegedly, on or about 15 August 2017, Bob Goodwin sent:
When I address Firefox to
https://www.google.com I get a message at
the
bottom of my screen "Performing a TLS handshake to
www.google.com" and
it looks like nothing more than that is ever going to happen ...
Working fine here.
Perhaps at the time you tried it, whatever Google server you were
connecting to, is having a problem.
[tim@fluffy ~]$ dig
google.com +short
216.58.196.142
That's the IP that I'm currently finding Google at.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 16:32:11 UTC 2017 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see
the messages posted to the mailing list.
If you are not the intended recipient, why are you reading their email?
You bastard!