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[Tom <question76099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76099 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/76099

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, now we are going to edit the "/etc/hosts" file so the first step in
a terminal console is to type

cd /etc
sudo cp hosts hosts.110709
ls hosts.110709

"ls" is lower-case "LS" as always and will hopefully show you that the
new file has been created.  If it has then continue with

sudo gedit hosts

and copy what's in that file into here for us to have a look at.  I
think the first 2 lines will look something like this

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	elcot-laptop

although it should also be ok if it has

127.0.0.1	localhost elcot-laptop
127.0.1.1	elcot-laptop

I think it shows the first one if you are part of a network and the
second one if you don't ever connect to a local area network (Lan).

Hopefully this should be fairly easy to sort out now but i have a
feeling we might have to edit this file by going through "recovery mode"
and then choosing "drop to a root shell", which would mean using the
"vim" text-editor instead of "gedit", not someting i'm looking forwards
to but it is quite a good editor - just very different.  Sooner or later
we will both have to get used to vim but hopefully not today ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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