browsers do not function after upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10

[paul garavaglia]

dell laptop, dual boot, winxp & ubuntu 9.10, firefox working ok in xp, firefox partially working in ubuntu after upgrade to 9.10, can reach these web sites: davidwong.com; www.dvorak.org/home.htm; www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp. Cannot reach these websites: www.guitaretab.com; www.msn.com; www.yahoo.com; www.zdnet.com/pcmag/; www.google.com. These web sites try to load but never finish: www.nonags.com; www.gimp.org. The web sites I have listed are a random sample from my bookmarks just to give you an idea of the erratic nature of the problem. Have tried reinstalling firefox. Also installed Midori and Arora browsers which produced the same results using the above set of web sites. Problem occurs whether using wireless or ethernet connection. Connection to web via DSL. No reason to believe the connection is bad. Am using my desktop PC with firefox installed on winXP to send you this report.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.