Hello Marc I hope you will receive this because I have a feeling this is very important to others. -- The "bug" or what ever it is -- is NOT my internet connection. However, it took me 2 reformats with reinstalls; and same and worse problem to get it figured out. I am not a technical person so please bare with my language of descriptions. -- Here is what created the problems I am going to explain. Firefox. I got a massive update on firefox and some totems. I went from the 3.0 to 3.6.6. The following are the things that began to happen. 1. Various websites that I visit almost every day -- I could not get to. I would get the white message that said: Page Load Error -- website server cannot be found by firefox. Not being able to access said websites could easily put me out of business on my own website. These particular websites I could not access are websites that I reply on to update my website. Rely on for the link information. My website is: http://www.healingcove.com looking at it you will understand my statement.
2. My website was the next major problem. During this time frame I was doing a massive update -- As I was trying to work on my website it began to freeze. I cleared my cache and cookies and history -- and doing so did nothing. Made no difference. So I did a publish -- but my website did not publish. I rebooted I read everything I could find -- nothing made a difference. 3. Other odd and rather upsetting things began to happen -- and the thought that came to mind -- these strange things were as if I was back on Microsoft -- and had picked up a terrible virus -- yet I have nothing on my computer Microsoft -- I run OS Ubuntu 8.04. -- I was ready to call my computer technician to come see what might be wrong with my computer -- when suddenly I got a pop up that said that I had various add on's that were out of date. I signed on to Synaptic Package Manager -- checked my add on packages -- ALL were up to date -- so now it was really puzzling -- out of frustration I clicked on Firefox and then all the packages that hold the add ons that were supposedly out of date -- and selected: Update and then I also selected: Repair Broken Packages. 4. Outcome of above. I got the red arrow that means I have more updates -- 9-more firefox updates popped up and 3 totems. I did those updates -- rebooted -- went back to Synaptic -- repeated the updates and Repair Broken Packages -- rebooted again. Outcome: A. I could sign on to my vital websites B. I could edit and update my own website. C. The other strange and odd things began to stop -- and within an hour of all this my computer was working correctly except for one thing. That one thing is the Firefox Icon disappeared and a strange black icon replaced it -- so I deleted that black icon that looked like a turned off Monitor -- and replaced it with the Firefox Icon -- which tells me I am doing 3.6.6 So my personal conclusion is -- that when Firefox does that massive update -- it has problems... or what you call bugs. -- I cannot reach Firefox to try to explain this -- but it certainly is a horrifying experience. -- I am a retired senior citizen my brain does not work quickly any more -- so reporting problems to Ubuntu was the only thing I could think to do -- and I hope this information will help others not to go through what I have. -- For I swear to you -- it was like the nightmare I would go through with Microsoft when I used to get Virus. That is why I switched to Ubuntu. -- This computer has never had anything Microsoft. It will infact be 1-year old July 19 -- my birthday. My remaining concern -- I need to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.4 -- but now worry will I go through more things like this. Sincerely, Janet Shelly mystiqueha...@yahoo.com --- On Mon, 7/5/10, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> Subject: [Bug 593486] Re: website can't be found by firefox To: mystiqueha...@yahoo.com Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 12:58 PM Thanks for reporting this issue, but it would appear this is a problem with your Internet connectivity, and not a problem with Ubuntu. Marking this bug as "invalid". ** Visibility changed to: Public ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability ** Tags added: hardy ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid -- website can't be found by firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593486 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 161.58.191.254 www.shareasale.com firefox won't open states address cannot be found ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jun 13 19:10:21 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-nettool Package: gnome-nettool 2.22.0-0ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-nettool Uname: Linux 2.6.24-28-generic i686 To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/593486/+subscribe -- website can't be found by firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593486 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
