You must have disabled javascript in preferences or something (maybe about:config ?) along those lines.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]>wrote: > Did you try IP addresses? Maybe it's DNS. I always use OpenDNS myself. > > Scott > > Sent from my iPhone-- > Scott Granneman > [email protected] > > On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:04 AM, 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]> > [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>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]> >> [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>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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
