Help with Firefox and Opera Browsers

[san2004]

I am running Fedora 8 64 bit on a desktop machine and connect to the internet through wireless network.

I am able to browse the internet by konqueror but not with Firefox or Opera.

Any suggestions there ?

[Brian1]

In say Firefox can you enter googles IP address and get to it.
http://64.233.167.104

Brian

[san2004]

Thanks Brian1.
Yes I can open google by IP address http://64.233.167.104 , but not by http://www.google.com in address bar. How to continue?

[san2004]

Any suggestions there ? Moreover Firefox can connect only when Konqueror is connected yo internet.

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by san2004

Thanks Brian1.
Yes I can open google by IP address http://64.233.167.104 , but not by http://www.google.com in address bar. How to continue?

Possibly an issue with DNS resolution. However, if that's true you'd be unable to browse with Konqueror, too. But out of curiosity could you post:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

[san2004]

Hi Tom. Here is the output of cat /etc/resolv.conf

# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!



nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

Thanks in advance

[Brian1]

Ok since IP works do the following. Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add the line.
alias ipv6 off

Next open firefox and on the browser line enter.

 about:config

Then search for this line and set it from false to true.
network.dns.disableIPv6

Do the modprobe.conf first and reboot. See if you can get on then. The only reason I say this is beacuse I don't know Opera and if there is anything like that in it like the Firefox config change. Last thing is edit /etc/resolv.conf and place your ISPs DNS values in there before the the existing one. You should be able to get that info from the routers config page and see what it is using on the external wan connection.

Brian

[san2004]

Great. Firefox works now. I am playing with opara settings. I will post my results later.

Thanks a lot.