Firefox "www" Goes Haywire

[Jeffrey Robbins]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:13:00 -0500, Ed Sutherland <digital at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> I updated my system (through the Update Manager and with apt-get
> dist-update) this morning. Firefox 1.02 began acting oddly in kubuntu.
> Whenever I type 'www.site.com' in the Location box, rather than printing
> 'www' I see three black squares.
> 

Sorry, no idea. Some oddness with font rending it sounds.

> This is replicated even when I log out then log back into kubuntu. This
> is replicated even when I reboot the computer and log back into kubuntu.
> 
> This *cannot* be replicated when I log into Gnome.
> 
> Firefox still goes to the address I enter, the 'www' portion just isn't
> printed correctly. I can skip the 'www' portion and still get the Web
> page I want.

Yes, www is simply a subdomain on the main domain name, albiet, it is
usually the default domain. However, you can sometimes get different
sites if you omit the www. Just as gmail.google.com takes you to a
different site than www.google.com; google.com and www.google.com have
the potentiality to take you to seperate sites.

> 
> Does anyone know of a fix? Should I uninstall and reinstall Firefox? Thanks.
> 
> Ed
> 
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