Yes, that certificate is expired and you get an error if you use the https: version.

• https://projects.gnome.org/gconf/

If you use the http: version (http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/) then you should be OK.

Are you using an extension that tries to force a secure https connection?

yes the (http:// projects.gnome.org/gconf/) got me there but dont know where to find answer to Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon

Make sure that you meet the system requirements.

• http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/system-requirements.html

I am really green at this

have processor 2 x intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHZ

Kernal Linux 2.6. 33.2 (i868)