My friend is having some internet trouble..?

Question

her internet connection is fine.

most website work.

she is just having a problem with four websites.

yahoo, myspace, facebook, and google.

they will not load, and if there was a chance that they would load, they do not work.

can you tell me some possible things we can do to have them function again?

thanks!

Answer 1

Hmm, that's a strange one...

What browser are you using, is it Firefox?

I'd recommend installing Firefox if you haven't already, as it might be that those specific websites do not support her outdated browser.

Let me know if using Firefox helps!

Answer 2

These sites may use "cookies" (and I'm not making that name up). In Firefox this is setup under Tools\Options\Privacy from the drop down menus. In Internet Explorer, I think it's Tools\Internet Options\Privacy.

So you would want to at least turn on using cookies from trusted sources (or whatever it is called in your browser).

In both setups (under Tools\Options), there are also exclusion lists for specified web sites, so you want to make sure they are not in those lists.

Finally, there are also some selections under Tools\Options that allows you to clear out the local file cache and other resources like cookies. It's not a bad idea to do that once in awhile to clear out a lot of garbage.

Saw the comment about the latest Firefox. Check for updates. I'm using the latest,greatest and it works fine with at least Yahoo and Google. There was one beta version that did weird things with moving graphics.

Answer 3

It could be a DNS problem.  Your friend may need to do what's called "flushing DNS".

http://www.hostmysite.com/support/info/f...