294066 - Unable to open URL's after install of 1.03 or 1.04 Firefox.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 291080

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Martin Connolly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Running Firefox 1.0.2 tried to update to 1.03 or 1.0.4.  On startup can not open
default home page.  Message: "WWW. ****(anything)" could not be found. Please
checkName and try again."  Get this message no matter what URL i use.  Go back
to 1.0.2 and all works.  Tried deleting all Mozilla and Firefox folders,
datasets, and registry entries, still 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 still won't work. Recently
installed Symantec's Norton Internet Security.  I'm missing something but don't
know what... Have uninstalled 1.0.2  reboot install 1.0.3 reboot still fails. 
Tried a new profile still no-go.

Thanks Marty    

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Receive message WWW.xxxx.xxx could not bee found. Please check name and try again.

Expected Results:  
Display a page.

System doesn't crash.  If I bring up IE 6 it works.

Workaround is to reinstall 1.0.2.

Comment 1

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

You need to configure your firewall to allow the new version of Firefox to
access the internet. See bug 291080 comment 1, bug 290658, bug 291345, bug
287464, and others.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 291080 ***