problems with firefox 2.0.0.11

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 10:49

Hi,

when ever i click on one of my bookmarks it sometimes takes about 10 seconds or more and then come up with "server not found" but if i click on the "try again" it will load now this dose not happen on every bookmark i have but its on most now and i am getting fed up with it.

would any of you wise men have any ideas as to why its doing this.

i have re-installed firefox but still the same.

MarcLister · 8 Dec 2007 at 12:00

This sounds like some kind of profile issue. Re-installing Firefox won't affect the profile. It only affects the actual browser. It might be worth backing up your bookmarks and then making a new profile and importing the bookmarks into that new profile.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 16:34

Is it the same with IE - it sounds more like a DNS issue than anything specific to Firefox.

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:35

tolien said:
Is it the same with IE - it sounds more like a DNS issue than anything specific to Firefox.

is there a way to reset the DNS ?

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:41

ipconfig /flushdns will flush Windows' DNS cache, but the problem might not be your machine storing out of date DNS entries.

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:48

tolien said:
ipconfig /flushdns will flush Windows' DNS cache, but the problem might not be your machine storing out of date DNS entries.

should i still try flushing the DNS cache then ?

i have setup a new profile and its still the same i click on a bookmark and nothing for about 10 to 15 seconds then a message "sever not found"

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:12

Try another browser first, and at least make sure that it isn't Firefox that's at fault...

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:22

tolien said:
Try another browser first, and at least make sure that it isn't Firefox that's at fault...

ok i just tried two sites which would not load on firefox the first time but loaded ok with IE7 the first time.

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:49

Ideally you need to try sites that you haven't tried already - if it is a DNS issue, once you've got a working result, Windows will hold onto it.

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 21:35

right i tried IE7 and typed in google and it didn't work then typed ocuk and that didn't work as well i then closed IE7 and typed in ocuk and again Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 21:43

Change the DNS servers your machine's set up to use - OpenDNS is as good a starting point as any.

jimjamuk · 8 Dec 2007 at 21:46

try opening a command prompt and typing nslookup. Then at the > type in the site you want to resolve e.g www.cisco.com. You should then get an answer from your dns server - try this s few times and see if you get the same values returned each time

tonyzero · 8 Dec 2007 at 22:22

jimjamuk said:
try opening a command prompt and typing nslookup. Then at the > type in the site you want to resolve e.g www.cisco.com. You should then get an answer from your dns server - try this s few times and see if you get the same values returned each time

C:\Users\Tony>nslookup
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

> www.itv-f1.com/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
> www.itv-f1.com/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
> www.ebay.co.uk
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: hp-intl-uk.ebay.com
Addresses: 66.135.210.64, 66.135.200.16
Aliases: www.ebay.co.uk

> www.ebay.co.uk
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: hp-intl-uk.ebay.com
Addresses: 66.135.210.64, 66.135.200.16
Aliases: www.ebay.co.uk

> www.overclockers.co.uk/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

*** UnKnown can't find www.overclockers.co.uk/: Non-existent domain
> www.overclockers.co.uk/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
> www.overclockers.co.uk/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

*** UnKnown can't find www.overclockers.co.uk/: Non-existent domain
> www.overclockers.co.uk/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
> www.play.com/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
> www.play.com/
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1:53

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** UnKnown can't find www.play.com/: Non-existent domain
>

just done these dose this mean anything ?

tolien · 8 Dec 2007 at 22:38

Assuming 192.168.0.1 is your router, it's either doing a crap job of playing DNS proxy, or your ISP's DNS servers are buggered. As I suggested, try switching over to using OpenDNS.

tonyzero · 9 Dec 2007 at 08:56

tolien said:
Assuming 192.168.0.1 is your router, it's either doing a crap job of playing DNS proxy, or your ISP's DNS servers are buggered. As I suggested, try switching over to using OpenDNS.

Thanks tolien i setup OpenDNS this morning and things seem a lot better today