361995 - No internet connection with Firefox 2.0. This problem does not occur with 1.5

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Wim Roukema]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

The internet connection goes via a router. With Firefox 1.5 no problems. I installed 2.0 and there was no internet connection. I even could not connect to the router. I checked the settings ("Direct connection to internet") and everything seems ok.
I uninstalled 2.0 and re-installed 1.5. And the connection is ok.
The problem occurs on Windows 2000 service pack 4.
I followed the same procedure on Windows XP and Firefox 2.0 works fine on internet (via the same router).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox 2.0 on Windows 2000 Service pack 4.
2.Try to connect to an arbitrary URL and the connection can not be established.
3.




I re-installed Firefox 1.5, so everything is ok now. But we can not take advantage of the enhancements of 2.0

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Please update your firewall to allow firefox to connect, it will assume that the new version of firefox is a separate program.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites

Otherwise you are better off getting support from one of the areas at http://www.mozilla.org/support.

Bugzilla is not for user support.