Friday, March 2, 2012

Adjust The Tinfoil, Jay...

Hmmm. Ever since I downloaded the last update to Firefox, I can no longer access the news stories that Bubblehead Les sends me from Fox News. All other news outlets load fine. Oh, I'm sure that there's a perfectly logical explanation, like Fox is the only outlet that uses one particular type of RSS feed or something. But every time I try to access the Fox News website, all I get is this error:
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.foxnews.com/404error/" on this server.
Reference #18.4971160.1330570821.fa1782b

I get this whether using www.foxnews.com or a link to any of the stories Les sends. Internet Explorer loads Fox just fine - it's only through Firefox that I see this error message. There's been a bunch of funky stuff happening with the newest version of Firefox, and apparently letting less-biased news sources through is one of them...

Anyone else notice this or any other funky screwups with the new FF?

That is all.

10 comments:

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

Which version? I'm on 10.0.2, in Winblows 7 (at work). Firefox says it is "up to date", and I'm not having any problems.

Rev. Paul said...

I can no longer download .pdf documents through Firefox since the latest update. Still works okay with IE, though.

Irish said...
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Irish said...

I'm on XP Professional and I'm using Firefox 11 with beta updates turned on. I have no issues here.

Ruth said...

I've had issues with weather.com for the last 6 months when using Firefox, and the latest update is even WORSE than the previous about using up all the computer's ability to function at the drop of a hat.

AndrewSarchus said...

I have similar issues with a certain e-commerce site every time i patch Firefox. Try clearing you Fox related cookies.

FrankC said...

I found that the 10 series of Firefox under Linux either froze or went so slowly that I rolled back to v4.0.1.
Whatever they've done is not good.

Ritchie said...

If it's not fracked don't update it.

Anonymous said...

i am running Opera 11.52 and have this similar issue. links worked fine but not straight address

SCI-FI said...

And my turkey sandwich was a little dry ...

("Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee?”)