377886 - cannot open lots of sites

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Conlith_G]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

running on a fedora core 6 box, cannot open many sites, like java.sun.com, yahoo.com.
the firefox on xp box sharing the same internet connection is doing great, i don't  know if it is something to do with my network config on fedora but some site like this is doing fine.
also, downloading file from most sites seem to stuck at the preparing stage.
hope you can find a solution for these,
thx

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type eg java.sun.com in url bar
2.enter
3.wait forever
Actual Results:  
the correct page eg index.jsp etc can be found and displayed in url but nothing is  rendered, not even showing source show anything.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Here's a page with a lot of possible causes and solutions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites

Comment 2

[Conlith_G]

all that can't help, but I tried other application like wget and konqueror they all stall after a portion of the target is downloaded, say a few tenths. I think there is something to do with my network config but some sites do work good, so it can't be with global config, can anybody help me out?

Comment 3

[Conlith_G]

ps
i am using intel e1000 with fc6 x86_64,
the box is configged as dhcp client without hostname (localhost.localhost), dns is pointed to the internal ip of my gateway which is connected to a cable modem and a adsl modem. no ipsec ipv6 secondary ip etc. 

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

For support, please try the forums. Since this bug appears to be an issue with your system, not with Firefox, closing as WORKSFORME.

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