hi all, I just installed Firefox on my windows machine in the lab! My office has a firewall block to access sites like yahoo,msn,etc ,....! when ever i use my IE and type www.yahoo.com ,the browser ends up in displaying a message that this site is blocked ! But while using Firefox , when i typed www.yahoo.com , i was able to access the yahoo site ! Can sombody tell why this happenes with Firefox ? I suppose the firewalll is independent of the browser !! TIA, Anand Note : Please put cc to me , as i m not a memeber of this group
Anandraj wrote:>hi all, >I just installed Firefox on my windows machine in the lab! >My office has a firewall block to access sites like yahoo,msn,etc ,....! >IE probably has a proxy set to go through your company's firewall. My old employer had the same restriction. However, using any browser that hasn't been configured by Internal Support (ie a vanilla Netscape or Firefox) and the machine will establish direct contact bypassing the company's security. Disclaimer: I am NOT in any way shape or form condoning bypassing security of any system, for any reason whatsoever. I am simply answering the question posed. Kind regards, Julian
> Can sombody tell why this happenes with Firefox ? > I suppose the firewalll is independent of the browser !!Just to make sure: You are using Windows on your system as you wrote. So this is the wrong place to ask! Wine is a program which allows to use tools for windows under Linux. Please ask your question on a Firefox-list or on a list taking care of network problems. Yours, Mike