208875 - no web pages can be retrieved, only the message "the connection was refused when attempting to contact www.mozilla.org"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[doug dornbos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

sometimes I get 2 messages:
"the connection was refused when attempting to contact www.mozilla.org"
"the connection was refused when attempting to contact tinderbox.mozilla.org"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start Mozilla
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
gone to a web page

I tried uninstalling Mozilla and reinstalling it, I tried rebooting, made sure 
I had my anti-virus off when I downloaded and installed.

Comment 1

[doug dornbos]

I fixed my problem by using window xp's "system restore" and went back further 
and further until I got to the date I had installed "windows update V4". when 
I got to how my computer was before that update, Mozilla was also deleted so I 
reinstalled it and it works fine.
Doug Dornbos

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

nothign changed in mozilla = not fixed

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm

Comment 4

[Sander]

v.