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Can't Browse Online? Need help to fix please?

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Hi. I am not able to browse the Web. Well I can and can't this is a tricky one. I always get a "Unable to connect / Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at (Website name).com." Error which is weird because I can play online games on my PC like WoW/HotS/LoL/Hearthstone/BF4/COD just fine. I was going to do a fresh install but I lost my disk and have no backup/system restore/USB bootable. My computer is a bit old. It uses Vista32 Home Premium. This is really weird I never had this happen.

Heres the Skinny on what I can do in terms of browsers(I had them all previously before this started to happen(Which was a few days ago but I thought it was maybe server problems)).

-Load up firefox(it brings me to the firefox homepage) -Load the google search engine(But only if it has the HTTPS:// I can't just type 'google.com' -Load this support page(But none of it's links that are in the support articals)


I've tried everything. Reset my router did a bunch of CMD stuff that others said have worked. I checked my NIC and nothing is wrong with my PC in terms of hardware. I'm thinking it's more of a settings problem but I looked through them all. If someone could help that would be great. I need my PC I use it for everything, bank/bills and don't have the cash to do anything like replace parts and stuff.

Hi. I am not able to browse the Web. Well I can and can't this is a tricky one. I always get a "Unable to connect / Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at (Website name).com." Error which is weird because I can play online games on my PC like WoW/HotS/LoL/Hearthstone/BF4/COD just fine. I was going to do a fresh install but I lost my disk and have no backup/system restore/USB bootable. My computer is a bit old. It uses Vista32 Home Premium. This is really weird I never had this happen. Heres the Skinny on what I can do in terms of browsers(I had them all previously before this started to happen(Which was a few days ago but I thought it was maybe server problems)). -Load up firefox(it brings me to the firefox homepage) -Load the google search engine(But only if it has the HTTPS:// I can't just type 'google.com' -Load this support page(But none of it's links that are in the support articals) -------- I've tried everything. Reset my router did a bunch of CMD stuff that others said have worked. I checked my NIC and nothing is wrong with my PC in terms of hardware. I'm thinking it's more of a settings problem but I looked through them all. If someone could help that would be great. I need my PC I use it for everything, bank/bills and don't have the cash to do anything like replace parts and stuff.

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Thanks for the reply but as I said I already tried all this...this is one weird thing going on. I just typed YouTube and it brought up a bookmark I had so I clicked it and the video and YouTube loaded fine. Go back to the search bar to type in yahoo. . .nope couldn't establish connection. .google? Nope couldn't establish connection...

Does nobody really know what can cause this? I've done everything listed on this site and much more.

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Copy the link(s) that don't work to a text file. Now compare them with the link that works. Post them here if you want.