Browser set up.

[Karl Larsen]

Walter wrote:
> Walter wrote:
>   
>> I have a problem that has bugged me for a while needs sorting out.
>> I  have trouble viewing certain websites. I have Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04B 
>> and have tried a variety of Linux OS, and different browsers.
>> I cannot view my own website, my ISP www.Plus.net and a bank, 
>> www.sainsburysbank.co.uk. Most other sites and banks are OK .
>>
>> Also others don't seem to have this trouble in their Linux setup.  F/F 
>> 2 & 3 have no trouble with any of these site in 'XP'.
>> It seems the problem is the typical setup and difficult sites.
>>
>> My spec here is reasonable, 2GB memory, Amd 3200XP, adsl usually about 
>> 4 Mb down 0.4 Mb up. I have 3 others systems running a lesser specs, 
>> all with the same trouble.
>>
>> My own page, www.walterreed.co.uk hosted by orange.co.uk, starts to 
>> download the top adverts header,(not mine) but then sticks and gets no 
>> further. The difficult header is not my inclusion but a penalty of a 
>> free webserver!
>> Synaptic tells me I have:
>> 'flashplugin-nonfree,(the description mentions Adobe)
>> 'sun-java6 plug in'
>> Adobe flashplayer_9_linux.
>> (no Php(?) is installed )
>>
>> Are there any other plugins/libs I should have?
>>
>> Suggestions from this group would be appreciated.
>>
>>   
>>     
>  Karl  wrote>> I looked at your web page and your a Ham Radio boating 
> buff. Looks fine to me here in NM,USA. I >>do have java 6 and the Adobe 
> plugin's. <<
>
>
>
> Thanks for confirming that Karl, you think I have the same plugins, so  
> any suggestion what is causing the block?  The sites are not on a black 
> list and I have also included them on 'accept cookies from these sites'
>
>   
    I ran into this problem when trying to look at my own web page. It 
turns out that if the web page IP number is a subset of my own then I 
could not view the web page. I had to get a fixed IP number from my IP 
server.

    You may be having the same problem.

Karl


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