My internet explore won't load?

Question

I have connection to the internet and the internet seems to be working fine, but internet explore won't connect. How do I get firefox on the computer without having axcess to internet explore to download it? I know firefox will work, because I can log in on yahoo messanger so the connection is good, its just IE. Please help

Answer 1

Simple. Use FTP.

If you have an FTP client installed (such as Filezilla), simply open it and connect to releases.mozilla.org using username: anonymous and password: your email address

browse to the latest 3.5 release. (should be in pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases) and then get the latest win-32 us-EN version.



If you do not have an FTP client installed try this:



winXP

Click on Start

Click on Run

Type - FTP



a terminal window will pop up saying

ftp>

type at the prompt

ftp> open releases.mozilla.org

press enter



{at this point, it should say

Connected to releases.geo.mozilla.com

220---------------

and a huge wall of text.

Just in case it says "Connection closed by remote host." try the open command again till you see 220------ and a huge wall of text showing you that you are connected to the mozilla ftp}



Once connected the prompt will ask you for your username:

Enter the username

anonymous

then it will ask you for your password

enter your own email address as password

you will see

230 Login successful.

ftp>



The FTP prompt is back and is waiting for your command. At any time, you can type "dir" (without the quotes) to see a directory listing.



Now the releases are in the pub directory so lets navigate to the pub directory



ftp>cd pub



it should tell you that the directory was changed successfully



Now lets go to mozilla.org directory



ftp>cd mozilla.org



and then to the firefox directory



ftp>cd firefox



now to the firefox releases directory



ftp> cd releases



now do a "dir" command to see what's the latest version out there



ftp>dir



at this point, the latest version seems to be latest-3.5

so lets go to the 3.5 directory



ftp>cd latest-3.5



We want the windows version (if you have another OS, then simply do "dir" command again and go to your appropriate OS directory)



ftp>cd win32



we will be in the windows directory. If you list the directory here, you will see all the different langauge version of Firefox that have been released. As you might want the english version, simply type



ftp>cd en-US



Do the directory command again and it will show you the list of files in there, you need to download the latest setup.exe file. At this point, it is: Firefox Setup 3.5.3.exe



so lets download that file, but before that, switch to binary mode



ftp>binary



This is to avoid downloading our file as a text file! We don't want that.

Now type:



ftp>lcd Desktop



this will change your local directory to your Desktop so you download the file straight on your Desktop



ftp>get "Firefox Setup 3.5.3.exe"



Don't forget to the put the filename in quotes. If you don't, FTP won't find the file specified as the filename contains spaces.



Once the file is downloaded

type



ftp>quit



Quit FTP, go to your desktop and install firefox!



Enjoy.





If you have connection problems with FTP, maybe your Internet is at fault.











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Answer 2

Have someone email you firefox or give it to you on a CD or Thumbdrive.



As far as IE goes will it open but not load the internet page or will it not open at all!?



If it doesn't open at all then go

Start

settings

control panel

Add/Remove programs

Select Internet explorer and hit REMOVE

Now since you can't uninstall it it will give you an option to REPAIR

go ahead and repair it. Might require a reboot



If IE opens but won't load a page then try this.

Open IE and hit Tools, internet options at the top

Connections TAB

Lan settings. button

Make sure you don't have a proxy set and that everything is either unchecked or set to automatic

While you're in IE hit the general Tab and delete you files and cookies.

Answer 3

i reccomend you to use firefox instead of internet explorer