Firefox 3.0 fails to download select sites

[Robert Cole]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.0 fails to download select sites, e.g., www.ietf.org, while it successfully downloads most other sites, e.g., www.google.com or www.weather.com.

I dual boot my laptop using IE on the windows XP boot and using Firefox on the Linux Ubuntu boot. IE connects downloads all the sites that the firefox browser does not. I can ping the problematic sites from the Unbuntu boot. I can download the sites using 'wget' from the unbuntu boot. I have firefox configured to detect proxies (although I have tried turning off the proxy settings and this did not help). I did a full software upgrade and I did a reinstall of firefox and this did not help.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bob Cole

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 13 13:22:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
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: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Robert Cole (robert-cole)]

Seems to be a problem related to having IPv6 running on my laptop. I wnet into the /etc/modprobe.d/aliales file and set the ipv6 to off and then rebooted the laptop. I can not access the problematic websites, e.g. www.ietf.org. Not sure why this is a problem all of a sudden. thx, Bob Cole

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest version of Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!