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October 27, 2007
Firefox Doesn't Function
Interestingly, when I boot Ubuntu from the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD">LiveDisk Firefox functions fine. When I installed the system, though, Firefox just didn't connect to anything. After some troubleshooting, I figured out that it must be Firefox itself, as other network functionality worked (installing off the web, ping, etc). I also installed KDE (officially making my computer "Kubuntu," I suppose) which comes with the wonderful Konqueror browser. Konqueror worked fine.
I searched on many strings and got no response and after digging, finally found a solution.
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the one that finally worked:
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This led to a forum in which Freebird54 proposed the following solution:
If it worked OK off the live CD, then it might just be the ipv6 problem - even on Dapper. You might want to try entering this in your terminal window (Applications->Accessories-
You could also enter an address of about:config into Firefox, search for 'network', then double click on network.dns.disableipv6 to enable this option. SHOULD get you going if you haven't changed too much else!
He literally means type "about:config" into the url bar (where you would type www.whatever.com). This brings up some configurations. There is a "filter" filed on the page, into which you can enter "network.dns". This will list only the options that start with that string. Double-click on the one named "network.dns.disableipv6", which will change it to "true".
After this, Firefox works normally.
Thanks Freebird!
Jargon learned: "the ipv6 problem"
Posted by james at October 27, 2007 09:33 AM