While trying to open common site like yahoo, some other sites with similar names are opening.

[J J JOHN]

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 10.04, Now when i try to open common sites like google and yahoo , some other sites with same name like yahoo.com, google.com are opening . Initially orkut was opening now the same problem is occuring with orkut also.

Initially when trying to open mostly all the sites give " 500 Error - Web Site is Temporarily Unavailable". Then on trying many times these sites with similar names starts opening.Firefox ver is 3.6.6

[J J JOHN (johnjeeth)]

Initially when trying to open mostly all the sites give " 500 Error - Web Site is Temporarily Unavailable". Then on trying many times these sites with similar names starts opening.

[Tom (tom6)]

Hi :)

I really think you only need to install "Adblock Plus" to solve this. After installing it you will need to close and reopen Firefox and choose a "subscription" (free) such as Easylist.

To install "Adblock Plus" just go up to the menus in Firefox and choose

Tools - AddOns - "Get AddOns"

and type "Adblock Plus" into the search tool in there and choose to install it.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

[J J JOHN (johnjeeth)]

Tried as said, But on searching for add ons it says " firefox couldn't retrieve add-ons"

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving to firefox since this is for Lucid.

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox -ProfileManager

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