Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server in Fedora

Dr. Andrew J. Page

Tuesday, August 22. 2006

Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server in Fedora

I upgraded to the latest version of Firefox in Fedora using yum and it stopped working with the error Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server.
I started firefox with firefox -profilemanager and created a new profile.
I then copied cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/compreg.dat ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.rtt/ where profilename is the name of the new profile. Thats it.

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To make this more useful and easier found on google, maybe change the title to "HTTPS SSL not working in firefox $version on Fedora $number after yum-update"

#1 Des Traynor (Homepage) on 2006-08-22 22:17 (Reply)

The title is the error I got, so thats what people will probably search for in Google.

#1.1 Andrew on 2006-08-23 09:50 (Reply)

Good enough.

#2 Des Traynor (Homepage) on 2006-08-23 13:16 (Reply)

Thanks!
updating nss was the only method that worked in my case

#2.1 Sungjoo Lee on 2006-10-17 04:34 (Reply)

This didn't work for me, but i found what's wrong and solved my issue. I think this might be helpful for some other fellas.

If you are using YUM,

# yum update nss (if you don't have NSS installed at all #yum install NSS)
# yum remove firefox
# yum install firefox

If you are not using YUM,

Download latest rpm package,

# rpm -Uvh nss*
# rpm -ivh --force firefox-1.5.0.6-2.fc5.i386.rpm

best,
s

#3 Serdar (Homepage) on 2006-10-04 22:53 (Reply)

thanks, you helped me out with the email ordeal via yum. Appreciate it.
-Gabe

#3.1 gabe on 2006-11-03 00:10 (Reply)

I just recreated my profile:
- run "firefox -profilemanager"
- delete the profile and create another one

That's it!

#4 val on 2007-01-20 04:29 (Reply)

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Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server in Fedora

Dr. Andrew J. Page

Tuesday, August 22. 2006

Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server in Fedora

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