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Firefox causes me to lose my network connection, thus disabling Outlook and any internet browsing via Firefox or Internet Explorer?

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I download Firefox and it works fine for an hour or so. Then it suddenly stops loading pages and I lose my netowrk connection at work. Internet Explorer doesn't work, firefox doesn't work, Outlook doesn't work, and I can't access my work network. Any suggestions?

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)

I download Firefox and it works fine for an hour or so. Then it suddenly stops loading pages and I lose my netowrk connection at work. Internet Explorer doesn't work, firefox doesn't work, Outlook doesn't work, and I can't access my work network. Any suggestions? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)

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Does the same thing happen when you start your computer and browse with Internet Explorer?

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Nope, IE works fine when I do not have Mozilla downloaded on my computer. When I download Firefox, it disables my entire network/internet connection after about an hour of use