Some sites don't work with Firefox (FC3)?

[mwood77 at frontiernet.net]

Quoting Chuck_Sterling <csterlin at zianet.com>:

> Dave wrote:
> > On Monday 27 December 2004 05:34 pm, John Cox wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:28:18 -0800, Dave
> <fedora-user at nospam.dnsalias.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>OK, here's an interesting glitch I have no clue about. Several
> websites I
> >>>tried today don't like Firefox. Trying to access www.sfbc.com
> (Science
> >>>Fiction Book Club), I get "Bad request. Your browser sent a query
> this
> >>>server could not understand."  Trying to get to www.woodline.com
> (router
> >>>bits), I get just plain "Bad request"
> >
> >
> >>I just got both with no problem.
> >
> >
> > Very interesting ... I just found another one.  My bank's web
> banking page
> > tells me I must use a browser with javascript enabled ... but
> javascript IS
> > enabled. And I can't find anywhere in the preferences how to change
> which
> > browser string Firefox returns.
> >
> > I'm running FC3, no updates. Fresh install. No browser extensions
> or anything
> > funky installed yet. On a whim, I enabled popup windows to see if
> that
> > affected anything. Nope.
> >
> > FC3 hates me. My sound card won't work. Shutdown doesn't work.
> mp3's wouldn't
> > work. My USB thumbdrive locks up the USB subsystem. One thing at a
> time,
> > though ... have to be able to browse ...
> >
>
> Perhaps you should consider updating the entire distribution, if you
> have not already done so. I was able to browse to www.sfbc.com with
> no
> problem; did not check the other. I'm currently using FF 1.0. Before
> updating the distro, there were enough problems that I eventually
> gave
> up and went back to core 2 until I got DSL and could get the core 3
> update done overnight...
>
> Chuck

You mention that you are running FC3 with no updates.  I would
definately update everything before trying to get things to work under
FC3.  I had sound issues as well as USB drive issues before I did that.
 I believe it is the udev package that you really need...

Just my $0.02