# Mozilla and M. Firefox, cannot connect to server

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 5, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161 "2004-12-05T03:22:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161/1 "2004-12-05T03:22:43Z")

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Even when some sites are working beautifully, I’m having serious issues with my lovely Firefox trying to connect to popular sites like Google and [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). I’m getting timed out or “cannot connect to server” or occasionally “this page contains no data” messages. Google and Amazon are the biggies, and since I am always, it seems, using their searches, this is starting to irk.

Thoughts? Be gentle. I’m novice level at this computer stuff.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161/2 "2004-12-05T03:24:59Z")

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I should have mentioned that if I’m persistent it eventually works.

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**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161/3 "2004-12-05T16:38:45Z")

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To me, this doesn’t sound browser-related - I suspect that if you had another computer on the same connection at the same time using Internet Explorer, you would have had the same problem.

I would start looking at my Internet connection (are you getting all the throughput you should? Is the connection going through at full speed?). It’s also possible that Google and/or Amazon had server problems that slowed them down - even the SDMB has its occasional hiccups, so why should Google be exempt?

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161/4 "2005-02-18T23:14:53Z")

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I’m still having this problem, only with Firefox. IE, Mozilla, and Opera are all fine.

Just now I hit a link about ten times and it finally connected to Mozilla’s site, where I was going to seek help with the issue!

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-and-m-firefox-cannot-connect-to-server/278161/5 "2005-02-19T00:48:32Z")

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Try this,worked for me.