282229 - The operation timed out when attempting to contact (server/host)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Luc Van der Zalm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: mozilla firefefox

When starting Firefox starts up normally. However start page is not coming. It 
display only the massage inb a box: The operation timed out when attempting to 
contact start.mozilla.org. or any other site in the bookmark folder.

Tried it 10 times and it is always the same. Proxy settings are okay.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on firefox/mozilla
2.wait a few seconds
3.message appears

Actual Results:  
the message box appearead with the text: The operation timed out when 
attempting to contact start.mozilla.org

Expected Results:  
start up page should have been appeared

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Doesn't block development.
Do you get thos only with your homepage or with all pages ?

If only the homepage: Do you use a PAC script ?
If with all pages: Do you use a Firewall (possible already deinstalled) on your
system and which kind of proxy Do you use ?

Comment 2

[James Castro]

I am having the problem when I try to connect to my admin page on my site. My
server host is www.ipowerweb.com so when I am goto my sites admin page
www.pasdubai.com/vdeck it comes up with the timed out alert. 

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response -> invalid