After updating to 2.0.0.7 NO webpages will load! Please help

[trolly]

With renaming you bypass the firewall and other security programs. They will regard firefox1.exe as a different program as firefox.exe.

[SilentNutcracker]

I know. But the interesting thing is, that i have no personal firewall. I have Kaspersky Internet Security with disabled firewall. I tried to disable Kaspersky before. But the problem was still there with Kaspersky turned off.
Also i dont understand, why a persona firewall should block firefox after an update. There where several updates already, which caused no problems...

[trolly]

There are reports about Kaspersky still blocking even when disabled. The only way around was uninstalling Kaspersky.
Firewalls remember the exact version of each allowed program. Once a program is updated it is changed for the firewall. If the firewall makers can get the new "checksum" to their firewall before the user updates the firewall already know the new version. Otherwise it had to ask the user what some firewalls (and other security programs) are not doing.

[a;skdjfajf;ak]

I know. But the interesting thing is, that i have no personal firewall. I have Kaspersky Internet Security with disabled firewall. I tried to disable Kaspersky before. But the problem was still there with Kaspersky turned off.
Also i dont understand, why a persona firewall should block firefox after an update. There where several updates already, which caused no problems...

Its a KIS issue, read here:
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?sh ... t&p=439830

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[bbTT]

I have the exact same problem as refine. Images frequently do not show up for me on such sites as myspace, justjared.com, dlisted.com. I do not run a software firewall (I'm behind a router) and I use Antivir. I deleted the program folder and profile and reinstalled 2.07 but the problem with loading images returned so I'm now back with 2.06. Mozilla please help!

[trolly]

Without changing settings the images load in .6 but not .7 ?
Did you try this with .7 ?
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=288184

[bbTT]

Without changing settings the images load in .6 but not .7 ? Yes

I'll try your suggestion when I get back home.

[Amsterdammer]

Hi,
i had the same problem. I found a "solution" on the net. Quite funny, but it works for me. Rename firefox.exe to firefox1.exe .

Me too, on page 3 of this tread
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 21#3062821
who reads have the advantage

Sorry for threadspam

Back to topic

... Firewalls remember the exact version of each allowed program. Once a program is updated it is changed for the firewall. If the firewall makers can get the new "checksum" to their firewall before the user updates the firewall already know the new version...

Exactly this is the reason, why Fx version 2.0.0.7 was firewalled:
Normally the latest RC of a new version (which always is offered by Mozilla's release team to firewall vendors) is shipped in "ftp.../nightlies" about two weeks before official release
This time Fx 2.0.0.7 RC2 was shipped on sept 14th and because of status "emergency-release" already released 4 days later with only one bugfix

Most of firewall-vendors (not AV-vendors!) update only once a week firewall-signatures. So Fx 2.0.0.7 was earlier released than firewall vendors could update the "whitelist"

The 'problem is, that some firewall-programs don't ask, because
*users have disabled "ask me" in options of fw-software
*fw are disabled by user, but do run in the background
*update-subscription is not prolonged by users
* old, not deinstalled trial version still running
*fw not clean deinstalled
*...
*...

[VanillaMozilla]

Most of firewall-vendors (not AV-vendors!) update only once a week firewall-signatures. So Fx 2.0.0.7 was earlier released than firewall vendors could update the "whitelist"

The 'problem is, that some firewall-programs don't ask, because
*users have disabled "ask me" in options of fw-software
*fw are disabled by user, but do run in the background
*update-subscription is not prolonged by users
* old, not deinstalled trial version still running
*fw not clean deinstalled
*...
*...

I think that's exactly right. I have to say that it's very poor design for a firewall program to block access just because it hasn't received word of an update, but that's probably exactly what happens. As for users disabling "ask me" options, that surely happens too. That is most definitely a user error, but the others must be due to poor design or bugs in the firewall software.

[trolly]

That's the cause i run my ZA in medium mode (applications have to ask), not in low (learn) mode.

[VanillaMozilla]

Oh, and don't forget, some firewalls just plain have bugs -- like Kaspersky firewall continuing to run after you tell it to shut down.

[curtisk]

Just enable Kaspersky's Firewall, then set it to allow all. This will fix it for people running KIS!
Don't bother disabling it, because it doesn't.

[AFC2]

Anyone suffering FF failure using Zone Alarm.
I have just installed the latest version of ZA (v7.0.408.0) and told it to do a clean install instead of update and FF is now working. (ZA sorted out the wireless network itself too so it wasn't any hassle)

[Andrey Ryabov]

I had the same problem It was resoved by uninstalling of Kaspersky Antivirus!!!

[Infinito]

I've installed Kapersky just minutes ago, and just after that, lots of pages on firefox wouldn't load (not even this very one, this thread).

What I've done was, not only disabling the firewall(which had no effect on the problem) but also anoother setting that seem to interphere directly on the internet connection, <u>the "Web-antivirus"</u>, which is not bundled on the firewall. Just click on "Protection" on the control pane to see it.

Worked for me.