firefox will not load certain web pages

[Steven Sciame]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Certain websites do not load and I seem to be getting a lot of strange messages in the error console of firefox. For Example:

Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://launchpad.net/+icing/rev8939/combo.css
Line: 2

Warning: Error in parsing value for 'height'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+filebug/s3vGNGEMfrfRSoyPgd2QJ5ZhF6u
Line: 0

and many others just like this.

ironically www.linux.org is one of the sites that dosen't work for me. I thought that it might have been down because a computer running XP could not access it for a while, but now it can. I was taking a linux tutorial on linux.org when this happened and it told me I could use the command: top to check which applications were taking up the most system resources. I notice that firefox was taking up about 20% of my memory and quite a bit of system resources(so my fan on the laptop was almost constantly running). So I got cute and installed elinks so I could use it for basic things like read linux tutorials so I can learn this stuff without asking too many questions on these forums.

linux.org stopped working in elinks first(along with yahoo mail-----error 9999 or something). I then tried firefox and yahoo AND linux.org did not work. Yahoo has started behaving itself (it works, but I still get similar messages in the error console) , but linux.org still doesn't work: Problem loading page and unable to connect with these error:

Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Line: 3

When I ping linux.org from the terminal it seems to work:

steven@steven-laptop:~$ ping linux.org
PING linux.org (198.182.196.48) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=568 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=53.9 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=165 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=156 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=164 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=6 ttl=48 time=183 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=53.4 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=8 ttl=48 time=53.3 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=9 ttl=48 time=51.4 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=10 ttl=48 time=53.2 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=11 ttl=48 time=55.8 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=12 ttl=48 time=51.8 ms

64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=13 ttl=48 time=53.7 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=14 ttl=48 time=52.8 ms
q64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=15 ttl=48 time=51.9 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=16 ttl=48 time=60.1 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=17 ttl=48 time=52.5 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=18 ttl=48 time=51.9 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=19 ttl=48 time=60.7 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=20 ttl=48 time=53.0 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=21 ttl=48 time=53.1 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=22 ttl=48 time=53.1 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=23 ttl=48 time=52.3 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=24 ttl=48 time=55.1 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=25 ttl=48 time=51.7 ms
64 bytes from linux.org (198.182.196.48): icmp_seq=26 ttl=48 time=54.3 ms
^C
--- linux.org ping statistics ---
26 packets transmitted, 26 received, 0% packet loss, time 25036ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 51.436/91.055/568.910/103.987 ms
steven@steven-laptop:~$

I already did the Tools>Clear Recent History

same result

any help would be much appreciated
Any help would be much appreciated.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 28 12:16:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.3)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686