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I cannot connect to the internet through my Mozilla firefox, I am being forced to use Internet explorer how do I fix Mozilla I tried a few of the suggestions on your website but nothing works.

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AnonymousUser
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I cannot connect to the internet using my Mozilla firefox, but can connect with Internet explorer. How do I fix the problem. I tried some options on your website but nothing is correcting the problem.

yesterday

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; IEMB3; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; IEMB3)

I cannot connect to the internet using my Mozilla firefox, but can connect with Internet explorer. How do I fix the problem. I tried some options on your website but nothing is correcting the problem. == yesterday == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; IEMB3; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; IEMB3)

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Moses
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Try clearing your cache and cookies.

  1. Open the Tools menu, then select Clear Recent History... .
  2. In the Time Range to clear: drop-down, select Everything.
  3. Click the arrow next to Details to display the list of items that can be cleared.
  4. Select both Cookies and Cache.
  5. Click Clear Now .


Or you can try creating a test profile to see if it happens on that profile as well. See Managing Profiles

Shawn
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This can be caused by a firewall blocking internet access to Firefox. See Configure firewalls so that Firefox can access the Internet. That link has a list of popular firewalls and how to configure them to work with Firefox.

Also see Firefox can't load websites but other browsers can