Re: Only some websites will open - Ubuntu

On May 30, 3:59 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@xxx> wrote:
Big Dave Smith wrote:
On May 29, 10:52 pm, johnny bobby bee <useraddshine...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Big Dave Smith wrote:
I have installed vmware-server and am running WindowsXP inside of it,
which does not exhibit the same problem.

are you running firefox on windows, or IE?

I know of several sites that (on my Windoze 98 setup) do the same ..in
Firefox.

Their HTML and javascript causes massive indigestion in Firefox.

Most sites that are written by non techie types are designed to work
with IE only - they never validate with Firefox/opera etc etc.

I suggest upgrading at least to the latest latest Firefox you can find,
and checking that out before hacking into your networking layers.

Philosopher, Thanks for the reply.

I don't think this is the issue. I do a bit of web-design myself, and
some of the sites which I'm unable to open are dead-simple.
toothpastefordinner.com, for example. Also, like I said, if I keep
hitting refresh, the page DOES actually load a tiny bit at a time,
which I find bizarre. Almost like after it gets the header and
whatever extra bits are stuck to it, it shuts down.

To answer you, I am using FireFox 2 on everything (Kubuntu, other
computers on the same network, and WindowsXP running in vmware), but
have tried other browsers to make sure it's not firefox being odd.
Slowly narrowing it down!

Thanks again
-Dave

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