Nachiketa Sadhu wrote: > Rony wrote: > >> Mehul Ved wrote: >> >>> On Sun May 04, 2008 at 03:00:26PM +0530, Rony wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Firefox (Ice Weasel) does not open any sites. The net >>>> is the Triband ADSL modem and in the gnome-terminal as well as konsole, >>>> dig, ping as well as ftp download works. >>>> >>>> >>> Maybe you can try by disabling ipv6? >>> 1) Type about:config in location bar >>> 2) In filter box type ipv6 >>> 3) network.dns.disableIPv6 change the value to true by right click and >>> toggle. >>> This, will disable IPv6 for firefox. Maybe this could help. >>> >>> Also have you tried with any other browser? >>> >>> >> I will be visiting the place again and will carry out the checks and >> also use other browsers. Live cds will also be tried out. However, in my >> own Etch that I use, ipv6 is not disabled and I use the net normally. >> This has never happened in any distro that I have tried or used so far. >> >> I had no idea about the about:config method in firefox. Thanks for the >> tip. :-) >> >> > > In my experience, in a new installation firefox takes time to start up. > It check for the latest version of the software. You can check the > processes running to see if it is running. > > Some time it has displayed its window after ten minutes even. This is > never repeated after the first time. > > We surf the internet through proxy, I had assumed that as the proxy is > not configured, it can not search the internet for latest version to > update itself, and gives up after a time out. It behaves itself after > the proxy setting is put in place. I have never experimented with > removing the proxy settings in a properly running firefox installation. > > > Here the net is the simple triband modem. However during install, since I had all the DVDs I chose to not use any mirror and the entire installation was off-net. Does that lock up the OS from the net in any way. It should not, at least in theory.
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