...And the chocolate fish goes to David Pugh for this reply off-list: " The problem is that Suse installs IPV6 networking entries into the configuration by default. Mozilla has a problem with it's gethostbyname logic when dealing with IPV6.
You need to edit /etc/hosts and remove (or comment out) the IPV6 entries in there that relate to localhost. You will then be able to access http://localhost. Hope this helps. You may like to copy this response to the list (I can't post there) " That fixed it in one. Thanks to all the others who helped, I've learned some useful things. Ed Hitchcock 9 Fulton Ave Christchurch 8001 355 7708 025 325 481
