Mysterious Firefox problem

[CharlieG]

Hey folks. I access the internet via two different wireless networks, one at home and one at university. For some reason, for the past couple of weeks Firefox is working at uni, but not at home. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[roguless54]

I had a very strange Firefox problem myself the other week, i was away for a week on holiday and when i came back firefox would refuse to open and would just crash.

I did a few things and got it to load some pages, but it was still reacting terribly, sometimes took up to 30 refreshes before attempting to load or connect to a page. If this is a similar problem to the one your experiencing then all i did to fix the problem was use a program which just resets the TCP/IP stack and thankfully it worked a treat.

The program i used can be downloaded from here ...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Network-Tweak/XP-TCP-IP-Repair.shtml

This is a solution for said problem on Windows XP with regards to using Firefox. Good Luck to you

 

[Falchoon]

watch out for those microsoft updates

 

[Borgsta]

Charlie

ask this on the firefox forums at www.mozilla.com

Can't say I have heard anything like this happening before. Would be interested to hear the solution too.

 

[ben_cats_fan]

I had exactly the same problem. I'm not sure in your case, but I'm fairly sure it has something to do with the proxy settings. For me, my Uni runs a proxy server, so we have to have the settings set for that.

I use Firefox @ Uni & Opera at home, so that I don't have to change the settings, however it is relatively easy to remove the proxy settings & set back up when you go back to Uni. I'm too lazy to do that

 

[CharlieG]

I had exactly the same problem. I'm not sure in your case, but I'm fairly sure it has something to do with the proxy settings. For me, my Uni runs a proxy server, so we have to have the settings set for that.

I use Firefox @ Uni & Opera at home, so that I don't have to change the settings, however it is relatively easy to remove the proxy settings & set back up when you go back to Uni. I'm too lazy to do that

That would be it! A library technician changed my proxy settings (I have no idea what they are) a couple of weeks ago, because I was having trouble logging on. I should have connected the two, but didn't.

So Firefox isn't clever enough to be able to work with both? That kinda sucks.

 

[ben_cats_fan]

That would be it! A library technician changed my proxy settings (I have no idea what they are) a couple of weeks ago, because I was having trouble logging on. I should have connected the two, but didn't.

So Firefox isn't clever enough to be able to work with both? That kinda sucks.

Yeah, doesn't appear so. I'm fairly sure that there's only a couple of options you need to click. One being direct connection instead of proxy?

 

[Nardz]

you can get an addon for firefox, cant remember wat it was called, that basically gives u a little icon in the bottom right corner, that allows you to toggle proxy use on/off just by clicking the icon.

just search firefox plugins for 'Proxy', it was a little green icon it placed on ur screen. I used it for exactly the same thing when i was at uni.

Edit: luckily for you i'm dreading work right now.

Quickproxy

 

[CharlieG]

you can get an addon for firefox, cant remember wat it was called, that basically gives u a little icon in the bottom right corner, that allows you to toggle proxy use on/off just by clicking the icon.

just search firefox plugins for 'Proxy', it was a little green icon it placed on ur screen. I used it for exactly the same thing when i was at uni.

Edit: luckily for you i'm dreading work right now.

Quickproxy

Cheers Nardz. I know I probably sound stupid but I have no idea how to get this to work. Do I need to access it whilst browsing in Firefox?

If so, how do I change the proxy setting (the hard way), so that I can access Firefox, as I am currently at home and may not be back at uni until mid-next-week?

 

[Nardz]

Cheers Nardz. I know I probably sound stupid but I have no idea how to get this to work. Do I need to access it whilst browsing in Firefox?

If so, how do I change the proxy setting (the hard way), so that I can access Firefox, as I am currently at home and may not be back at uni until mid-next-week?

yeah you access it while browsing in firefox, and there should be a link that says "add to firefox" or something like that, depending on what version you're using.

To do it manually you go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Settings and im guessing you have to alternate between no proxy/automatic proxy configuration URL