[Cialug] Xubuntu question

[Tim Wilson]

I'm sure you've checked this, but make sure Firefox thinks your
online.  For some reason, when I'm using wireless on Suse, Firefox
always puts me in offline mode.  Just a thought.


On 4/4/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 13:23 -0500, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> > I just wanted to let you all know that I did get that xubuntu installed
> > and figured out getting lilo working. So that is done.
> >
> > Now I have a strange situation ... I can ping outside our network, but
> > I cannot get Firefox to bring up websites, but Konqueror can. I tried
> > Galleon, Epiphany, Kazehakase without any luck either.
> >
> > Any ideas why that would be?
>
> Nope.
>
> But, you've obviously given up before using the *best* web browser.
>
>   sudo apt-get install w3m w3m-img
>   w3m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers
>
> In case you've never seen a console browser show images, brace your
> self, it's insane. http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/tmp/w3m.png
>
> OK, just kidding, w3m isn't that good, but it is a fun alternative to
> lynx. Maybe its the "best" browser the way "ed" is the best editor. :-)
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Tim