FireFox driving me NUTS !!!

[debiani386]

Jan Sneep wrote:
> I can't believe I'm the only one having this problem. I just did a 
> clean install of Ubuntu Server and added the Gnome Desktop last week 
> and haven't touched anything to do with FireFox as far as I can tell 
> and the darn thing just won't wait more that a 1/10 th of a second for 
> the web sites to respond before giving me a "Can't Connect" error and 
> I have to click on the "Retry" button 20 or 30 or sometimes 40 times 
> before it will connect ... aaaaahhhh !!!!
>  
> If I jump over to my Win XP machine and try the same site with IE it 
> connects no problem and as both machines are on the same LAN, same 
> workgroup, and using the same Gateway, so I know the web sites are up 
> and working.
>  
> I posted about this a few days ago, but haven't been able to fix the 
> problem.
>  
> Maybe I need to re-install FireFox? Is this a simple thing to do or 
> something I need to be very careful with?
>  
> Jan
Why ubuntu server? i would recommend regular pc ubuntu  unless your 
really good with ubuntu. Furthermore, if this is the out of the box 
firefox (or if it was downloaded in conjunction with gnome) i would 
recommend going to there website (on the windows machine) and 
downloading the linux version, then go to linux, untar it and run it. 
Sometimes stuff from the ubuntu repos dont work all that great.

--cj