firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[Giorgos]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:30 -0700, mjewell wrote:
> Apologies if this topic has been covered, but Firefox is displaying
> "operation timed out" messages instead of loading the Ubuntu wiki and
> forum --- along with Google and many other pages.   

Does it do that with all pages? Are you sure you haven't changed any of
its settings (proxies etc?) Maybe you do need to set up a proxy?