291246 - No web sites are accessible since applying the security update to version 1.0.3.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[bobisuruncle2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Message received is in a messagebox labelled "Alert".
"www.mozilla.org" (or whatever site) "could not be found. Please check the name 
and try again."  Yes, I'm sure I'm spelling the URL correctly.  Things were fine 
before the security update.
The update was applied over an existing version of Firefox.  Perhaps that was 
not a good plan?  Since then I have uninstalled and re-installed Firefox.  Same 
result.  I'm entering this bug report using Opera since I can't use Firefox!  I 
tried various connection options (under Tools, Options, General, Connection 
Options), but no change.  I connect via DSL with no proxy server.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type the URL
2.Press Enter
3.Read the message
4.Click OK
5.Repeat ad nauseum

Actual Results:  
Message received.  Local HTML pages (such as the bookmarks file) display without 
any trouble.

Expected Results:  
One would expect to actually view the site.....

Using the default setup.  No special themes; no fancy configuration.  Things 
were fine an hour ago!

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You most likely need to update your firewall to allow the new version access to
the internet.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Also see the common error messages section of the Firefox Support FAQ at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38 

Comment 3

[bobisuruncle2002]

Thanks to the feedback from everyone, this was identified as a firewall issue.  
A new entry was somehow created in my firewall "rulebook" that took precedence 
over the existing rule.  The new rule did not allow Firefox to access the 
Internet.  Obviously the first rule gave full access.

Fixed!  Thanks.  I still love Firefox.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

As a bug, this is invalid, not fixed.