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No progress in backtests

All my algorithms seem to be stuck in the "initializing backtest" phase since yesterday. Not just new algorithms but even the older ones that were backtesting within minutes. Anyone else facing a similar issue?

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I had the same problem yesterday, but as it turned out it was only in Firefox (on Ubuntu). Full backtests did actually run, I just couldn't see them. I switched to Waterfox and it works fine now...

@Tentor: Thanks! It seems to work now after changing over from Firefox on Windows to another OS.

@Neeraj Salodia @Tentor Testivis. We have isolated the issue to Firefox 74 and how it handles the Quantopian SSL certificate (or more precisely how it doesn't handle it). There's a fix underway and should make it through testing and hopefully into production later today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update. As of noon ET this has been resolved.

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