265512 - Firefox is unable to find any site on the internet wih Norton Personal Firewall 2004 turned on

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph Monforte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox is unable to find any site on the internet wih Norton Personal Firewall
2004 turned on.
 - Windows version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2.rtm.40803-2158:Service Pack 2)
 - Norton Personal Firewall 2004
 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Norton Personal Firewall
2. Turn on Norton Personal Firewall
3. Try to access any URL with Firefox 1.01

Actual Results:  
Get an alert box stating that "www.amazon.com" could not be fourd. Please check
the name and try again.

Expected Results:  
Taken me to the web site as it does with the Personal Firewall disabled.

Comment 1

[Dave Taylor]

Have you configured Norton to allow Firefox access to the internet? The point of
a firewall is to prevent unauthorised internet access, so it's probably just
doing its job - if you haven't told it that Firefox is a "safe" program, Norton
should block its internet access.

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

No response from reporter.

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