Website not loading in FF but does in IE?

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:40

Same website, does not load at all in FF, I don't get it, eventually, maybe days, weeks later it'll decide to work again, but for now it won't load that specific website.

Any idea? Left is FF, not loaded the website, but right is IE and it loads fine.

Thanks
Will.

Randomface74 · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:42

Why does ur FF have a build number in the title bar, some kind of beta?

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:44

No, it's just 3.6, even if it is a beta, that's not the problem since every single build of FF I've used has the problem with this web page.

MarcLister · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:46

What website is it? I'll have a look and see if it loads for me. If it does then maybe there's an extension with Firefox messing things around?

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:54

www.bikeradar.com

Anything in FF to disable all extensions or any mods, but to enable all that was previously enabled at the click of a button?

MarcLister · 15 Mar 2010 at 12:59

Loads in Opera 10.51, Firefox 3.6 and IE8.

Might be worth disabling all your Firefox extensions, either in one go or one at a time, and seeing if the page loads then.

Sp00n · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:06

MarcLister said:
Loads in Opera 10.51, Firefox 3.6 and IE8.

Might be worth disabling all your Firefox extensions, either in one go or one at a time, and seeing if the page loads then.

^this + safari

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:07

How do you disable em all in one go? But I don't want to have to re enable em all at one time.

Sp00n · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:09

Click the "Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)" icon in your start menu

MarcLister · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:10

You could try a new profile?

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:11

Just ran in safe mode, disabling everything and resetting it all, still would not load :confused:

MarcLister · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:16

Give a new profile a go?

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 13:23

Aye I'll try that and report back, thanks.

MarcLister · 15 Mar 2010 at 14:41

Any luck then?

mattbill · 15 Mar 2010 at 15:08

I had an odd problem similar to this and it turned out certain addresses had been added to a list of blocked addresses within a text document in the Windows folder.

I posted about this one the techspot forums years ago, so here is the link... what you are describing there is very similar to the problems I had, so this may help or it may not here is the link anyway.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic37526.html?highlight=PAYPAL

Sp00n · 15 Mar 2010 at 15:09

It can't be the hosts file, for one its intermittent and 2, he would get the issue in any browser.

tolien · 15 Mar 2010 at 15:29

Proxy settings?

Hoodlum · 15 Mar 2010 at 16:17

Works fine here. Definitely suspicious of that build number in your titlebar, though. Is there no chance you could go with exporting bookmarks to a .html and installing firefox & deleting all folders related?
By which I mean any of these (Assuming Windows 7):

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Mozilla

You will need to import the bookmarks from the html file again and reinstall any extensions, though.

tolien · 15 Mar 2010 at 16:24

There's no point doing that when you could just start a profile. Exporting to HTML is especially daft, you'll throw away your history, favicons etc.

willhub · 15 Mar 2010 at 17:57

How do I create a new profile??