<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2014 01:36 PM, Linda wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:54931EBC.4000707@earthlink.net" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2014 11:07 AM, Bill Stanley wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:549309BA.3000907@wowway.com" type="cite"><snip <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite">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. </blockquote> 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). </blockquote> 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 Now that I think about it, I did get a popup message about the version of Adobe Flash being out of date.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 </blockquote> Don't know if it will help your problem but I solved my problems with firefox be removing <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> xul-ext-ubufox . Linda <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> <meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <title></title> <meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 4.2.7.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> WS-> It can't be that, I did a file search and found no such file. </body> </html>