[wellylug] Firefox and thunderbird issues

[Jonathan Harker]

steve at twininstallations.co.nz wrote:
> I have just installed SUSE 10.1 and it all appears much better than
> Xandros however I am having problems using Firefox and thunderbird. Both
> appear as if they have no internet connection yet Konqueror is working
> fine. Both just seem to keep search for either email or a webpage
> without coming up with an error. Firefox came with SUSE so its not an
> installation problem I would hope, I did install thunderbird myself so
> it could be something I have done.
> 
> Any ideas on how to solve this as? I dont mind using Konqueror as it
> looks better but I like thunderbird as an email client and would know
> what other ones would be easy to use and configure.

Did you keep your home drive intact? Thunderbird might be inheriting
some odd settings from your previous Xandros install. Settings are in
stored in ~/.thunderbird