firefox wont access google sites

[james]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I updated 9.1 a couple of days ago and also upgraded firefox to 3.6. Since then Gmail has not been able to connect, and whilst I can run a google web search clicking on any of the results will cause the page to timeout. Some of the https sites I use like online banks also will not connect. Most other sites work fine. My computer is dualbooted with win7 and I use chrome in windows, which works perfectly.

Rebooting, disabling ad-ons and clearing history have no effect. Could there be some conflict with a recent java update maybe????

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 25 18:43:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic x86_64

[Paul Seddon (paul-paulseddon)]

I'm having a similar issue with 9.10 (i386), and Firefox 3.5.9, over the last few days.

Entering a google search generates a suitable-looking URL, but google doesn't send back any data to render.

Interestingly, I have the user agent switcher installed, and if I switch to emulate a different user agent (e.g. IE7) and reload the google page (CTRL+F5), searches work fine. So possibly this is something to do with the user agent strings being sent when first making a connection to google?

If I go to google front page (with default user agent), and switch user agents before I search, it still fails. I have to load the original search page with the spoofed user agent in order to get it to work.