Neither has anything to do with the problem. Something in his environment specific to Firefox like an add-on or a firewall setting is blocking it. I use that combination on at least 2 machines and have no problem at all. He says he didn't have a problem with a SUSE LiveCD but he would also have no problem with an Ubuntu LiveCD.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Steve Holmes <st...@holmesgrown.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what distros have to do with Firefox working or not but I > use ArchLinux here and I use Firefox all the time. I mainly use > downloaded binaries from trunk instead of the Arch binary because I > want latest version so I can try and keep up with accessibility bug > fixes. In the case of trunk binaries, I just download the tarball and > extract into a firefox directory in my $HOME directory and run it from > there. I'm not aware of any problems doing it that way. > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 05:21:48PM -0800, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > > Thanks, I pinged "yahoo.com" and it works fine. Opera is not on my > distro > > but Arora is and it works fine and so did Firefox. The only problem > with > > Arora is the yahoo only recognizes Firefox so that does away with > Arora. > > Tried > > Suse 11.3 as a live cd and Firefox works fine. Ubuntu's Firefox does > not > > recognize either yahoo.com or the URL. So now I am looking for a new > > distro that Works with Firefox. > > > > Clay > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson
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