295305 - Cannot locate any urls since 1.0.4 upgrade

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Torregrossa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-us; MSNc0z; MSNc00)
Build Identifier: Mozzilla Fire Fox 1.04

Cannot locare urls with Norton Firewall active. Other 43 other browsers work 
fine. Firefox was fine until I upgraded to 1.04. I do not like to use browsers 
that allow hackers to use the active x controls to climb into your system. 
Please fix this problem. Or are you telling me I no longer need the firewall up 
and active wiyh the new code???? Thabks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just start Firefox
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Actual Results:  
Unable to find the URL

Expected Results:  
Found the URL

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

[Not an exploit, clearing security flag]

Firewalls are an excellent part of a multi-layer approach to security, we would
never suggest you turn yours off. In our testing Firefox works fine with
firewalls including the one from Norton. The fact that yours doesn't, but works
fine when the firewall is off, points directly at a Firewall setting being the
culprit. Somewhere along the way the firewall has decided Firefox is an
unauthorized program. This is not a default setting in the firewall, so the most
likely scenario is that the firewall noticed the program change when you
upgraded and you (or another user of your computer) quickly clicked through the
warning dialog, accidentally selecting the "block" setting instead of the
"allow" setting. You will have to find the settings for individual program
blocking and unblock Firefox. Or if you can't find them, re-installing Firefox
to a directory with a DIFFERENT NAME will probably result in the firewall asking
you about whether to allow the "new" program to connect.

Truncating summary. Please keep the details in the bug, only the first 60
characters or so of the summary are visible in the bug form or on reports.
Truncated details are: "previously told to check Norton firewall settings they
were not changed in a long time. Fire fox worked fine in previous version Note
three othe browsers work fine with the setting that are there. MSN, IE,
Netscape. ????? I can tell you when I disable the firewall firefox works fine.
Something in the coding changes for the new relase is not right. Been around
software a very long time. Check the code try it yourselves. Please get back to me."

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is a tech support request, not a bug. Please see
http://www.mozilla.org/support/#community for help.