Beermouse Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Hi all, For Christmas I received a new computer (Celeron 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, the whole shabam). I installed Firefox on it immediately after getting XP and all my drivers and such set up. It worked fantastically for the first day and a bit (especially after I used the tweaks posted here). Anyhow, it just stopped working. It won't load any pages. Everytime I try to access a page through Firefox it says, "PageX.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Now IE works fine, as does The Opera. Any ideas/solutions for this slightly technotarded person? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franknputer Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Look under "Tools -> Options..." at the General options page. At the bottom is a button "Connection Settings" - push that, and make sure that you are not trying to connect via a proxy (most of the time you should not be). The top selection "Direct connection to the Internet" is what I have, although the 2nd option "Automatically detect proxy" might work too. Another option is to delete your profile information & start fresh. This is a pain for some, but since you just set it up there wouldn't be much you would lose. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\"Your User Name"\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\ and delete the "Profiles" folder, then restart Firefox. (Of course, "Your User Name" is just that - so if your name is John, then it would be Documents & Settings->John->Application Data etc.) If you don't see the Application Data falder, then look under "Tools->Folder Options..." in Windows Explorer, then click on the "View" tab, and select "Show hidden files and folders". Then it should be visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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