278890 - Unwanted message on screen each time Mozilla is opened

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Preston C. Manning Jr.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

For 2 weeks or so message appears that a particular site cannot be found.  If I
click "OK" or the X cancellation site it disappears and there seems to be no
problem using the site afterwards.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot up successfully or use another program
2.Click on Mozilla
3.The Alert with the message in question appears

Actual Results:  
There appears to be no functional problem afterwards.  The Dell technician in
India told me after she had run through efforts to eradicate the message to
contact Mozilla.

Expected Results:  
The Alert should not be there.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

Reporter, always give the exact text of the warning.
Is it always the same site? Please provide a URL.

What i expect is that your firewall is in the way and blocking traffic on a
specific port. Suppose you have site A for your home page and Moz starts up,
loading your start-up page. Now if that site uses a strange port, Moz won't be
able to connect to it. While other sites and other browsing may work normally.

But without URL i can't test anything further...

Comment 2

[Patrick]

Preston: please use bugzilla for all correspondence. That way everyone is always
up to date with what happens, and not just me ["more eyes" etc.]

the error you get "www.hrltnprmwigqt.com cannot be found" makes sense,
that web site simply doesn't exist.

My guess is that somehow your settings have been changed, so that firefox loads
that page when you start the program.

Click TOOLS - OPTIONS, look under GENERAL what's set as your homepage?

Comment 3

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Preston: please use bugzilla for all correspondence. 

Got PM from reporter, the steps from comment 2 resolved his problem, so no bug
here -> INVALID