firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[mjewell]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 00:56 +0200, Giorgos wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 15:42 -0700, mjewell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 22:23 +0200, Giorgos wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:30 -0700, mjewell wrote:
> > > > Apologies if this topic has been covered, but Firefox is displaying
> > > > "operation timed out" messages instead of loading the Ubuntu wiki and
> > > > forum --- along with Google and many other pages.   
> > > 
> > > Does it do that with all pages? Are you sure you haven't changed any of
> > > its settings (proxies etc?) Maybe you do need to set up a proxy?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > No settings were changed, and Firefox (1.07) is loading all pages slowly
> > to the point of timing out before the page can be loaded.     
> > 
> 
> Other browsers work ok? It sounds very weird. Maybe it's a network
> problem? Your internet is working fine otherwise?

Yes, its weird.  Konqueror worked okay under Mandriva linux, and Firefox
works fine from the Windows XP Pro partition --- same machine.  Email is
fine.  Pinging the sites from a terminal is fine.