Thanks for the hint. Apparently, if "localhost" points to anything but 127.0.0.1, it will not affect most apps but it will affect Firefox. I had the following in /etc/hosts: ^ 127.0.0.1 somename somename.someplace.dom 127.0.1.1 localhost ...
Changing cupsd.conf so Listen localhost:631 reads Listen *:631 solved the "403:forbidden" error on Konqueror accesses when accessing http://127.0.0.1:631 -- but would not work when trying to access that URL from Firefox. Correcting /etc/hosts was what was needed. I have no idea of how localhost became 127.0.1.1 on this machine -- but the file was too clean for this to have been a manual edit. Cups logs would indeed show accesses to 127.0.1.1 when any browser tries http://localhost:631 before the correction to /etc/hosts. To summarize: Configuration changes solved the problem entirely. However, there are unexplained differences between the behavior of Firefox and the behavior of Konqueror when accessing "localhost" and/or 127.0.0.1. I do not believe I should keep this issue open :-( --- or should I say :-) -- Firefox print greyed out in Kubuntu 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
