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4shared won't open in FF but with IE or IE Tab

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After upgrade to 3.6.8 suddenly FF fails to open 4shared.com no matter what I do, but it open in IE tab or in IE itself with no problem. It only opens in FF when I clear all the cookies of 4shared. It works for a while then again & again. I tried safe mode but got same result. Any help ???

URL of affected sites

http://www.4shared.com/

After upgrade to 3.6.8 suddenly FF fails to open 4shared.com no matter what I do, but it open in IE tab or in IE itself with no problem. It only opens in FF when I clear all the cookies of 4shared. It works for a while then again & again. I tried safe mode but got same result. Any help ??? == URL of affected sites == http://www.4shared.com/

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Opens fine for me with Firefox 3.6.8 and Opera 10.53 on Windows, and with Firefox 3.6.6 on Ubuntu.

Try clearing your DNS cache.

See this http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=330 and http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/233/clear_windows_dns_cache/