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Timing out on everything?

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Firefox has become unusable? Every single website I try to connect to I get "timed out" message. I even tried to update firefox and got the same time out message! I've tried all the sites in another browser, chrome (which is what I'm using to write this) and they work fine. Something is wrong with firefox?

URL of affected sites

http://google.com

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4

Firefox has become unusable? Every single website I try to connect to I get "timed out" message. I even tried to update firefox and got the same time out message! I've tried all the sites in another browser, chrome (which is what I'm using to write this) and they work fine. Something is wrong with firefox? == URL of affected sites == http://google.com == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4

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cor-el
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A possible cause is security software (firewall) that blocks or restricts Firefox without informing you about that, maybe after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program. Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox.

See Server Not Found - Troubleshoot connection problems and Configure firewalls so that Firefox can access the Internet and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls