Firefox problems

[Linda]

On 12/18/2014 11:07 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> <snip
>>> Hi Wade,
>>>
>>> As I mentioned before, I am using Firefox 30.  I 
>>> recently installed
>>> Chromium and the same problem affects both Firefox and 
>>> Chromium.  It
>>> seems to be a operating system problem and not a problem 
>>> specific to
>>> Firefox.  What would be blocking these two (and maybe 
>>> more) websites
>>> but allows other websites to run properly?
>>>
>>> I am going to try other web browsers to see if they are 
>>> affected as well.
>>>
>> It sounds as if it might be some sort of DNS problem.
>>
>> What happens if you try 'host bbc.com' on the command 
>> line (or
>> whatever the site that was causing you problems).
>>
>>
> WS=> When I investigate the problem further is seems that 
> FF is"freezing" on two web-pages.  Looking at the status 
> line of FF (bottom of the screen) I see "Connecting to 
> static.bbci.co.uk" or "Connecting to node1.bbcimg.co.uk".  
> I do not get a timeout on the connection either, it just 
> stops when it gets to either of these two pages.  Also, 
> from watching the status line, I can  see that bbc.com 
> loads and then transferees control to either of these two 
> web-pages.
>
> I have temporarily disabled all of the FF add-ons and I 
> still get this problem so it does not seem to be add-on 
> related.
>
> .  Now that I think about it, I did get a popup message 
> about the version of Adobe Flash being out of date.  Since 
> Adobe has discontinued support for Linux, I ignored the 
> message because there was nothing that I could do about 
> that.  Could this be the problem?
>
> The output of hosts is as follows, I don't think it is a 
> DNS problem.
>
> $ host bbc.com
> bbc.com has address 212.58.246.103
> bbc.com has address 212.58.244.18
> bbc.com has address 212.58.244.20
> bbc.com has address 212.58.246.104
> bbc.com mail is handled by 10 cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com.
> bbc.com mail is handled by 20 cluster8a.eu.messagelabs.com.
>
>
> $ host static.bbci.co.uk
> static.bbci.co.uk is an alias for static-bbci.bbc.net.uk.
> static-bbci.bbc.net.uk is an alias for 
> static.bbci.co.uk.edgesuite.net.
> static.bbci.co.uk.edgesuite.net is an alias for 
> a1638.g.akamai.net.
> a1638.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.136
> a1638.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.137
>
> $ host node1.bbcimg.co.uk
> node1.bbcimg.co.uk is an alias for img.bbc.net.uk.
> img.bbc.net.uk is an alias for 
> node1.bbcimg.co.uk.edgesuite.net.
> node1.bbcimg.co.uk.edgesuite.net is an alias for 
> a1092.g.akamai.net.
> a1092.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.155
> a1092.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.136
>
>
Don't know if it will help your problem but I solved my 
problems with firefox be removing   xul-ext-ubufox .
                Linda
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