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Thread ID: 49651	2004-09-26 09:47:00	Trying to get Firefox to work	jcr1 (893)	Press F1

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275779	2004-09-26 09:47:00	I've made postings about this from time-to-time in the last 2 or 3 months in the hope that eventually someone might be able to help. In a nutshell; I get funny results when I try to use Firefox - some sites load, some don't. Sometimes I get a message along the lines of incorrect syntax... . Sometimes something about "postdata". The Firefox homepage loads perfectly, but when I go to Fencepost or say, Google, it loads, sometimes very erratically. This is on my laptop, which shares the internet with my desktop PC via AnalogX proxy server, through a wireless network. IE, Maxthon and Opera work fine; but I really want Firefox or Mozilla, as I think that they are better (Mozilla works perfectly on my PC XP partition & Firefox works perfectly on the Linux partition on the same machine). I've tried it with the firewall (Kerio) turned off, but no difference. Proxy server set up perfectly - I absolutely know I have IP addresses & port numbers right. There is an IP address assigned to my wireless access point, but why should this make a difference with Firefox/Mozilla when IE, Opera etc work? I have totally uninstalled (to the best of my knowledge anyway), Opera & Maxthon. Is there anyone please, that might know what I should be doing to get Firefox working?	jcr1 (893)
275780	2004-09-26 10:07:00	"The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." This is the message I get when trying to get the Fencepost home page. Using Google just returns a mess.	jcr1 (893)
275781	2004-09-26 10:35:00	try those site with IE, firefox doesnt work with all webpages HTH :D	Patrick 2003 (277)
275782	2004-09-26 11:32:00	Thanks Patrick; it looks like its working now. Just downloaded java (don't know if that helped) and imported stuff from IE and now, after all that mucking around with proxy settings, making exceptions for the IP address on the wireless access point, etc. etc. it finally appears to work. The web sites I quoted, Fencepost and Google, are pretty well my most used sites and work fine with Mozilla on my desktop PC. I realise that Mozilla/Firefox doesn't work with all websites and I believe that is because IE can let programmers away with sloppy programming, more of an indictment on IE actually. My son the programmer, tests his web stuff in Mozilla, 'cause then he knows it will work! Now on to Thunderbird.	jcr1 (893)
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