n00blar Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 (edited) Mandrake 10 and using latest mozilla, konqueror and firefox 1.0. I'm able to browse many websites; however, there are several (well quite a few) that will refuse to load on any browser I use. Websites such as www.slashdot.org, www.linux.com, www.ebay.com and many others will never load on any of my browsers. I've removed cache folders; I've removed re-installed firefox on clean directories and nada. As I said, I can access many many websites (including this one :) ), but I can't get those sites to ever come up. I wanted to add that If I boot to my Windows computer - this problem doesn't exist. Any ideas? Edited November 16, 2004 by n00blar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I had the same once. Turned out to be a problem with the ISP. But I doubt that is causing your problem (since windows wrks). Maybe a problem with the nameservers? Look in /etc/resolv.conf and compare it what you have in windows.. Or maybe you use a proxy? Have a look at that. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00blar Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 I've done all that, I have the same name servers on my Mandrake box as the ones I have in my Windows box. No proxy either, the weird thing is just certain sites. I just don't understand what does slashdot.org and linux.com would have that won't load on my browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 There's certainly something in Slashdot that breaks a normal firefox install, don't know about the other browsers, though. Try adding the "slashfix" extension to firefox and see how that goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00blar Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 I found it!!! dang...it was the security settings on Mozilla...loading pictures. Apparently a FireFox setting was preventing me from downloading pictures (ads) that are loaded not from the original web site. Now I can browse Linux.com, Slashdot.org, etc, etc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00blar Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 I found it!!! dang...it was the security settings on Mozilla...loading pictures. Apparently a FireFox setting was preventing me from downloading pictures (ads) that are loaded not from the original web site.Now I can browse Linux.com, Slashdot.org, etc, etc.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmm..well, that worked only for Slashdot.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 just guessing, but have you checked the style sheet (CSS) settings of the various browsers? for Konqueror............ settings->configure konqueror->style sheets. make sure the "use default style sheet" button is checked. for Moz............... edit->preferences->composer. make sure the "use css styles instead of........" box is checked. i don't use Firefox, but it's probably similar in that. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00blar Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 The settings are as you suggested....still have problems though. I can't pin-point what may be causing this 'erratic' behaviour on these browsers. The weird thing is the Windwos version of FireFox works just great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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