Hi Edwin, On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, proxy settings are correct. If it's not i would probably have got an > "unable to establish connection ..." straightaway. BTW, i'm using Firefox 2. > The one that's in the Ubuntu 7.10 repos. > [snip]
Well, I do not really trust Ubuntu's repo. d: I'm not sure how Ubuntu includes Firefox in its repo, but I suspect that it may have tinkered with some settings in Firefox. I have lots of problems with Ubuntu (all of which are non-issue with my main distro, debian). Anyway, as a suggestion, maybe you could download a Firefox linux binary from Firefox website. You should download version 2.0 if you intended to use Ubuntu repo version again in the future; otherwise Firefox 3 Beta 5 is really good and fast, with less memory leak problem. You can extract the .tar.gz file into your home directory (~$ tar xzvf ...tar.gz). The entire Firefox will be found in ~/firefox. You can simply run the binary ~/firefox/firefox and see whether it works. There is no need to install Firefox to the system. If it works, then the problem will be with Ubuntu Firefox settings. You can opt to use this version of Firefox instead, just modify all the shortcuts to Firefox to point to ~/firefox/firefox. Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
