Firefox will only load home homepage and will not let me navigate anywhere else.
My computer automatically rebooted itself last night after installing several updates to Windows. When I woke up this morning, I opened Firefox, and it loaded my default homepage (cnn.com) just fine. When I tried to visit ANY other website, the URL in the address bar would correctly list the URL of the website I was trying to visit, but Firefox would display CNN's error page as though I had searched for something on CNN's website that it couldn't find. This happens every time I try to visit any webpage other than CNN, including when I try to open links to CNN stories from the CNN homepage. Internet Explorer works fine.
I have Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit). The updates that were installed automatically last night were:
Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB982480)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Update for x64-based Systems (KB982525)
Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB982519)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile for Windows Vista x64-based Systems (KB982670)
Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB915597 (Definition 1.85.532.0)
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, but to not avail. I have also run full system antivirus and anti-spyware scans which found nothing.
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
I woke up after several Windows updates had automatically installed themselves
User Agent
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)
All Replies (4)
Let's start simple. Try clearing your cache and cookies.
- Open the Tools menu, then select Clear Recent History... .
- In the Time Range to clear: drop-down, select Everything.
- Click the arrow next to Details to display the list of items that can be cleared.
- Select both Cookies and Cache.
- Click Clear Now .
I tried your suggestions, but they did not fix the problem. I downloaded Google Chrome and found that it was giving me a similar problem, but it was labeled error #336. I searched for that error number and found it had something to do with proxy settings. I figured out how to follow the instructions for fixing it in Chrome, but in Firefox instead, and that fixed my problem totally. I have no idea how my proxy settings got changed in the first place, but at least it's working now. Thanks!
My computer is doing the same thing. Only I updated Firefox, after doing so, it will only load my homepage. When I type in a page it acts as though it is going to load it and then loads my home page again (Google.com) I can search on Google but when I click a link it again sends me back to Goggle homepage. Its quite frustrating and I am being forced to use internet explorer again. Which i do not like at all. Please help!