Do you have another browser to compare it with? Maybe Konqueror -- see if it behaves any differently. I assume you've tried ping or lynx or other command line tools to confirm anything is working, and that you've shut down and started up (not reboot -- sometimes it seems to not quite clear everything out) to see if that changes anything. --Don Ellis
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I discovered I can open html files. For example, I create a file > foo.html containing this: > > <html> <body> hello world </body> </html> > > and that displayed. If I modify that html to this: > > <html> > <body> > hello world > <a href="http://google.com";>google</a> > </body> > </html> > > Firefox displays the page and even shows the hyperlink, but Firefox > does not follow the link to Google. > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > How can I figure out why won't Firefox display any pages? > > > > I'm running Firefox 3.0.14 in Ubuntu 8.10. When I type in > > http://google.com in the address field nothing appears. In fact, even > > if I type javascript, it doesn't display. For example, this should > > pop up an alert with "hello world": > > > > javascript:alert("hello world"); > > > > How can I go about figuring out what's wrong? > > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
