Date: 04/08/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

Maybe someone can help me understand this, because it's making no sense to me. Earlier today Comcast decided to be a wh0re and as such, I was unable to connect off and on for a period of maybe 3 hours. Eventually Trillian was able to connect to AIM, MSN, etc and my bittorrent transfers were fine again - but I simply could not access the web through Firefox. So I waited a while and wrote it off as my computer just being stupid. Well, later Firefox still would not connect even while it was clear that my internet had reconnected (I was talking on AIM as well as recieving e-mail notifications). So I decided to try to access a few random sites through IE - which was able to connect successfully. So I decided to use Go Back and reverted my drive to 12am this morning. That went through, everything started up, and I loaded Firefox - still nothing. From here I tried IE it loaded the start page fine. I figured I would try to reinstall Firefox and install Mozilla as an extra back-up measure. Firefox installs fully, and nothing happens - still nothing on the start page and the test page I threw at it. From here I installed Mozilla, and the start page loaded. Now after this, the start page on Firefox finally decided to comply! My main question is: W T F....? I can understand that things magically happen and screw up random programs, but even after I reinstalled - it didn't work untill 4 minutes later. Could anyone make some logical sense of this?

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