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This is a weird one....

I'e been using firefox happily for a few months when my IE8 started playing up. I subscribe to Virgin Media broadband here.

I have another house where I have just this morning had AOL Broadband installed, and managed to get the Netgear router working. IE8 works, and Opera works, but when i try to run Firefox I get an error message "403 Access Denied".

I've just come back to my original location, with the Virgin Media Broadband, and Firefox is absolutely fine!!

So why is Firefox fine here, using Virgin Media Broadband, and not working at a new location using AOL? Opera and IE8 work at both locations.

Cheers in advance....

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Firefox is probably trying to use a proxy server as the first thing it does when you put it on a computer is import everything it can from Internet Explorer, including any proxy server settings. Turning this off on Internet Explorer doesn't automatically change it on Firefox. Proxy servers are used by ISPs (Virgin have one) that block all traffic that isn't generated on the Virgin network.

Firefox proxy setting lives under the Tools Menu -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> "Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet" settings button.

[Neil Jones]

Firefox is probably trying to use a proxy server as the first thing it does when you put it on a computer is import everything it can from Internet Explorer, including any proxy server settings. Turning this off on Internet Explorer doesn't automatically change it on Firefox. Proxy servers are used by ISPs (Virgin have one) that block all traffic that isn't generated on the Virgin network.

Firefox proxy setting lives under the Tools Menu -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> "Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet" settings button.

[mrblue]

That was the answer!! I went to the settings you suggested, and amended it to "automatically detect settings for this network" and re-started Firefox. All is perfect now.

Thank you very much indeed Neil.

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