322880 - Firefox 1.5 lack of connectivity

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mea1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.5 (20051111)

I have been using (until a few minutes ago) Firefox 1.0.7
I just downloaded and installed 1.5 and now Firefox does not access any websites!
I opened IE6 and it's connecting fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Firefox
2.send it to any website
3.loads indefinately....

Actual Results:  
as above

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_any_website

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 322883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

This is most likely a configuration problem with your firewall.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

Comment 5

[mea1]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is most likely a configuration problem with your firewall.
> 
Thanks for input.
I checked my firewall (Norton 2005) and it is configured to allow Firefox full access to the web.

Comment 6

[mea1]

Thanks for everyone's kind input.
I had tried most of the suggestions already. (firewall,safe-mode,reboot,etc)
If anyone knows where to get Firefox 1.0.7, please inform.
I tried all the new suggetions; still no success.

Comment 7

[Elmar Ludwig]

> I checked my firewall (Norton 2005) and it is configured to allow Firefox
> full access to the web.

Are you sure that the Firefox listed there is the new binary and not the old one? Sometimes it is necessary to remove and re-add the firewall entry when a new or updated binary has been installed.

Comment 8

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Bugzilla is not a support forum. Try http://forums.mozillazine.org/ instead.

Comment 9

[mea1]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Tried reinstalling 1.5 -- same result. 

Note that after closing Firefox, it still appears in the Processes (although not in the Applications) in the Task Manager and cannot be ended!

Comment #7 - Thanks for tip. I attempted to scan Firefox with Norton(before applying your suggestion) and Norton stopped responding! Cannot be ended with Task Manager either.