Firefox problems

[Bill Stanley]

On 12/18/2014 01:36 PM, Linda wrote:
> 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 version of Adobe Flash being out of date.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
>
>
WS-> It can't be that, I did a file search and found no such file.
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