Google not loading - everything else works

[DrHu]

My firewall is not on so I can't imagine what is going on. Every other thing that I go to on the internet works.

And when you type in the url http://www.google.com, do you get the google search page
--if so, then it is the preferences within your browser(home page), or the addons that are not correct

[altair4]

Open Terminal
Type ping www.google.com

Do you get an output ?

[DrHu]

BUMP..
And when you type in the url http://www.google.com, do you get the google search page
--if so, then it is the preferences within your browser(home page), or the addons that are not correct

There is no connection reason, if everything works including pings why one IP-name address (http://www.google.com) doesn't, because DNS problems (IP-name mapping) is more general than that, check the google IP address
--in a terminal on your system ping http://www.google.co, try that address in the firefox location bar, do you get a
response or not..

checking the data
--in the terminal

• ping ww.google.com
• nslookup http://www.google.com
• Contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file, it should only include your nameserver/gateway, if you are using dhcp connection (automatic)
• Try the IP addresses returned, do you connect to http://www.google.com search page ?