I need some help getting firefox and ie to work again. I'm currently using Opera and it's slow as a mofo. They both immediately stopped working after I tried to visit a site with Firefox that has been working perfectly before. At first I thought the internet was being a douche and going slow, but I went on the other comp (I'll call it comp2) and the internet was fine, both IE and FF works. Then I tried restarting FF but they wouldn't load sites anymore. Then i tried it with IE and the same thing happened. I searched google and found that my dns servers may be overloaded. I tested it out by entering the ip address of google into FF and, sure enough, the page loads. Same with IE. But how am i ranting this to you guys right now? It shouldn't be the dns servers should it? I even called up my isp and they told me it wasn't the dns servers. This crap happened to me before with my old comp (not comp2) while using IE so i had to dl FF. I guess all browsers currently on the computer would be affected when this happens, but newly downloaded browsers would work. I had IE and FF installed at the time of the event and lately installeded Opera. Can someone help me fix IE and FF cuz Opera sucks balls....

statix

United States1760 Posts

April 24 2008 00:48 GMT

it happens to me sometimes

i use ccleaner, scan for spyware, reset my connection, and restart my computer

im not sure which does it but it usually works

Vaanelo

Canada128 Posts

April 24 2008 00:53 GMT

u can try safari, its pretty fast, but uses huge amount of memory..

FragKrag

United States11556 Posts

April 24 2008 01:11 GMT

If nothing else works, I guess reinstalling Firefox might. What was the site that you visited which "caused" the malfunction?

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

April 24 2008 02:05 GMT

I'd be greatful if someone could provide a direct download link to CCleaner, I have a funny virus on this computer, every time that I type in CCleaner into google or visit a CCleaner website, my whole browser crashes.

sith

United States2474 Posts

April 24 2008 03:05 GMT

On April 24 2008 11:05 Orome wrote:
I'd be greatful if someone could provide a direct download link to CCleaner, I have a funny virus on this computer, every time that I type in CCleaner into google or visit a CCleaner website, my whole browser crashes.

http://www.filehippo.com/download/file/000d502ac3bc94e70e38a7f3b68a504b0ed4b69389ab135183f9b4dffa89fb14/

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

April 24 2008 03:15 GMT

Thanks!

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

April 24 2008 03:16 GMT

Wow, now it's crashing the install program every time. That's some pesky virus.

sith

United States2474 Posts

April 24 2008 03:19 GMT

Try Ad-Aware or AVG, see if it has blocked them too. Are you positive the reason it can't install is a virus?

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

April 24 2008 03:22 GMT

#10

Doesn't have them blocked, only CCleaner. Pretty sure it's a virus, it just auto-closes anything to do with CCleaner. Anyway, thanks for your help, I don't want to hijack this thread further.

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

April 24 2008 04:23 GMT

#11

I have a similar problem, but a bit different. Sometimes my connection will sporadically stop loading all websites on any browser on any computer (we have 5 computers in our home network here -- some on windows some on linux, they all die equally). They all stop working together, none can load websites as if the whole internet connection had died. But!... all other internet protocols work, msn, irc, starcraft, winamp radio, ventrilo, etc etc etc. Just http protocols die on my connection, but everything else works.

Any ideas?

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

April 24 2008 04:29 GMT

#12

When was the last time you reset the router? unplugged it wait 10 30 secs give juice back shit can get locked up to certian mac adderesses denying conenction like after you torrent etc shit that hogs ports sometimes are teh cause

~NePlusUltra~

United States31 Posts

April 24 2008 08:15 GMT

#13

Do this...

Windows XP
start > run > cmd > ipconfig /flushdns

Windows Vista
start > search > cmd > ipconfig /flushdns

That'll fix it.

8882

2720 Posts

April 24 2008 14:44 GMT

#14

On April 24 2008 13:23 VIB wrote:
I have a similar problem, but a bit different. Sometimes my connection will sporadically stop loading all websites on any browser on any computer (we have 5 computers in our home network here -- some on windows some on linux, they all die equally). They all stop working together, none can load websites as if the whole internet connection had died. But!... all other internet protocols work, msn, irc, starcraft, winamp radio, ventrilo, etc etc etc. Just http protocols die on my connection, but everything else works.

Any ideas?

If you had one computer (and Windows) it could mean that you have exceeded the number of ingoing and outgoing connections. It is hidden somewhere in the registry. I wonder if there is any "global" number of connections set by the ISP

uNiGNoRe

Germany1115 Posts

April 24 2008 15:33 GMT

#15

I would never ever voluntarily use any browser except Opera for anything. I somehow dislike FF the most...

VIB

Brazil3567 Posts

April 24 2008 17:27 GMT

#16

On April 24 2008 23:44 8882 wrote:

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That COULD be it. I'll ask them. Thanks for the insight.

CyuntiyuL

Canada1740 Posts

April 24 2008 18:39 GMT

#17

i had a similar problem, except i would only be able to load certain sites.

fixed it by changing firefox.exe to firefox1.exe.

x89titan

Philippines1130 Posts

April 25 2008 02:42 GMT

#18

nice. changing firefox.exe to firefox1.exe got it working again. now i have to find a way to stop hamachi from freezing on installation....might be a virus but avg 7.5 and kaspersky internet security 7.0 didn't detect anything

Talith

United States1102 Posts

April 25 2008 05:43 GMT

#19

the same thing was happening to me for weeks! I just figured it out today. I bought my computer which had vista and all the other add ons on it. Well I guess uninstalling it doesn't uninstall all the way. My Norton was blocking everything even windows update. I used CCLEANER and went to Norton's website which happened to have a tool that cleared out all file locations and hidden crap.

I also uninstalled service pack 1 (Dont know if it was necessary) and now its working great. I spent hours tryin to figure out what was wrong too, hopefully this helps.