Yes, networking works and elinks is able to display google.com and other sites just fine. I haven't tried Konqueror, yet, as I do not have it installed, but will shortly. I was trying Nautilus, but I guess it cannot be used as a web browser.
As for Firefox, I create a new profile which exhibits the same problem I also tried uninstalling and then re-installing Firefox. Same problem. I started Firefox from the command line, capturing output, but nothing is logged. If it weren't for the JavaScript issue, I would say it's a problem with name resolution. But since even the javascript pseudo-protocol doesn't work, I'm puzzled. And it's only this one installation in a VM. All my other Ubuntu installs have Firefox working just fine. Regards, - Robert On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
