Does Firefox give you an error message? I'd try a different browser on the same machine to rule out it being localized to the browser or a more systemic problem. Chris <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 6, 2013 7:33 PM, "James Freer" <<a href="mailto:jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com">jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Chris Feld <<a href="mailto:mdmcaf@gmail.com">mdmcaf@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > If you're using Chromium I ran into a similar problem with my Xubuntu > machine where I had to close every tab manually (you can't just close the > browser) and finally Chromium itself before I was able to access the website > again. > > If not, have you tried another browser from within the Xubuntu machine? > > Chris Good point - I forgot to mention I'm using Firefox. I used to use Chrome which I found better than Chromium... google tweaked it quite a bit! I went back to FF as I like the addons. james > > On Sep 6, 2013 7:16 PM, "Anthony Papillion" <<a href="mailto:anthony@papillion.me">anthony@papillion.me</a>> wrote: >> >> Hi Gang, >> >> I'm experiencing a weird problem that I can't seem to track the source >> of down. I'm hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on >> what might be going on and how I can go about fixing it. >> >> On Wednesday morning, I attempted to go to <a href="http://www.schneier.com" target="_blank">www.schneier.com</a> from my >> Xubuntu box (this is the website of security expert Bruce Schneier). >> I've been to the site many times with no problem at all. But, as of >> Wednesday morning, I can't access the site at all. >> >> Today, I thought it might be a problem with my network so I attempted to >> access the website from another computer. It worked! So the problem >> seems to specifically be based on my Xubuntu 12.04 machine and I don't >> know how to resolve it. >> >> I've checked in the /etc/hosts file to make sure nothing was there and >> everything is fine. I've checked my firewall 'just in case'. No >> problems. I'm at my wits end trying to resolve this. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Anthony >> >> -- >> xubuntu-users mailing list >> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> > -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>