You can go back to your previous thread. I've reset the status to Normal, so you should be able to post again.

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I found a prefs.js in c:\documentsandsettings\applicationdata\mozilla\firefox\profiles. I got out of Firefox, changes the prefs.js file to prefsold.js, and restarted Firefox. It made no difference in my issue, although I saw that I had to redo where my downloads went, my home page and a few other things, indicating that a new profile was being written.

The original thread is still closed - and yes, I did refresh the browser to make sure I got an updated version.

I wonder if there's a dial up profile somewhere in FF that's overriding the one I'm trying to use now (one for Verizon FIOS). I know that's a stretch but I'm grasping at straws (at least those I can understand, anyway) here.

Thanks for trying anyway

Did you look is there is a file user.js in that same profile folder?

Are there any lines with network.proxy in the file prefs.js?

Use Open With in the right-click context menu to open the file in Notepad for inspection, don't double-click the file as that will cause an error. Don't make any changes to avoid corrupting the file.

There are indeed 3 lines that have it...

user_pref("network.proxy.http", "127.0.0.1"); user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 11535); user_pref("network.proxy.no_proxies_on", "localhost,127.0.0.1:11535,update.microsoft.com,*windowsupdate.microsoft.com,*windowsupdate.com,download.microsoft.com,codecs.microsoft.com,activex.microsoft.com,liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com,liveupdate.symantec.com,service1.symantec.com,*.nai.com,*.networkassociates.com,*mcafee.com,*.mapquest.com,*.phobos.apple.com,update.adobe.com,admin.isp.netscape.com,");