285607 - Firefox and mozilla will not download certain web pages, returns "...connection was refused when attempting to contact ..."

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Coltharp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2
Build Identifier: www.mozilla.org FF 1.01

Fedora Core 3, Gnome window manager, FF 1.01

Firefox and mozilla will not download certain web pages, returns "...connection
was refused when attempting to contact  ...".  This bug works for 
 - www.jlab.org
 - www.mozilla.org (ironic)

web pages will load from Netscape or Konquerer web browsers, (webpage caching is
not an issue.)
the problem is computer specific.  I can not repeat the bug on other computers.
when others login to the computer the problem can be reprodiced.

Mesages recieved when executing firefox from a terminal:
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
directory, skipping.
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
directory, skipping.
 
History of installation:
I removed Firefox installed by Fedore Core 3 installation, i did this trying to
fix another bug
I installed Firefox 1.0, from www.mozilla.com, all of these symptoms exists.
I removed this, and reinstalled FF 1.01.  No change.

file /etc/hosts.deny is empty except for comments


I can't think of anything else relavent

Please help me, I really like Firefox. Ya'll have done a super job with it.  Be
proud. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. load page, by bookmark or by manually typing in the url box.


Actual Results:  
message-box opens stating "The connection was refused when attempting to contact
 ..."

Expected Results:  
Load the web page

Comment 1

[Philip Coltharp]

Since the last report I installed netscape.  I witnessed netscape as not having 
the same problem as firefox.  But in time the problem migrated to netscape and 
now netscape behaves like firefox and mozilla.  The websites can be accessed 
through Lynx and Konqueror.  One more caveat, the websites can be accessed by 
netscape when I login under root and start netscape.  This is not so for 
firefox.  
 
I just don't understand this wierdness.  If this is a joke some one is playing 
on me, they got me. 
 
 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.