Strange Firefox problem

[Christian Csar]

The problem seems to have gone away, but it was definitely strange while 
it lasted.
Christian
Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:39:49AM -0500, Christian Csar wrote:
>> So far the only problem with Firefox 3 in hardy, is that it seems to 
>> have substantial problems visiting Google, but not other websites I have 
>> noticed. This also only happens if I go by URL rather than IP address 
>> from ping. What is also strange is that it is intermittent within 
>> firefox. Google quite simply is not loading after more than 5 minutes, 
>> but going to the 64.233.169.104 gets there nearly instantaneously.
>> Konqueror gets to google nearly instantaneously.
>>
>> I imagine that if this problem affected others that they would have 
>> filed some sort of bug report by now, so it may be specific to me.
>>
>> My only guess is that Firefox has a google ip hard coded somewhere, 
>> which does not make too much sense.
>> about:config searching for google does not turn up anything that seems 
>> too strange.
>> Christian
>>
> 
> If this is still an issue for you and you tested that its not related
> to an extension or a plugin, please file a bug to investigate this.
> 
>  - Alexander
>