problems with firefox 2.0.0.11

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ipconfig /flushdns will flush Windows' DNS cache, but the problem might not be your machine storing out of date DNS entries.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