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I am unable to download anything because of a "connection failure on addons.mozilla.org". I also wanted to try the about:config fix but don't know where to 'go' to find about:config.

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Can't download anything because of the "connection failure on addons.mozilla.org".

Can't download '''''anything '''''because of the "connection failure on addons.mozilla.org".

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You type about:config in the location bar, like you would a URL -> http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config