I thought I had replied to this, guess I closed down before it sent.

OK here in UK and using a Mint Live Memory stick.

I do note their MINT news

• All forums users should change their passwords.
  http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3001 {Written by Clem on Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 3:05 pm)
• Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th!
  http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 {Written by Clem on Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 1:44 am)

The belated initial post

Hi pepein, I am not sure this is going to turn out to be a Firefox support issue.

I see not particular reason why you should have a problem just in Mint. I am using Linux myself right now from the UK, but not Mint.

IIRC Mint's site and downloads were hacked recently.

You could have a problem with Mint itself, or may be trying to use their site. Have you tried with an alternative browser from Mint ?

What error messages are you getting ? What exactly does or does not happen ?

I will try later from at least a live dvd/memory stick Mint and check that works.

_{Not sure who added the escalate tag without commenting ? It was not me, but I will leave the Tag.}

Hi John 99 Thank you for your response to my post.

When I try to go into Firefox on Linux I get the following message:

UNABLE TO CONNECT

FIREFOX CAN'T ESTABLISH A CONNECTION TO THE SERVER AT www.linuxmint.com.

There is then the usual 3 bullet points suggesting what may be the cause of the problem.

I installed this copy of Linux Mint 15 sometime ago from a known good disc. Until Sunday the 20th February 2016 it had worked fine, connecting to Firefox every time with no problem.

As you suggested I tried another browser (Yahoo) on Linux and this worked fine. I have now made this my default browser on Linux and now I can get onto the Internet with no problem. I still have the problem on my PC, well I did the last time I looked.

Thanks again for your help and advice.

Andy Chamberlain

Hi Andy, Try other sites, our support.mozilla.org for example do they work ?

If it is just linux.mint.com (and that works for me as you can see from my first post) then try clearing the cookies and reloading using keyboard shortcut Ctl + F5

• Firefox can't load websites but other browsers can
• Clear cookies and site data in Firefox_delete-cookies-for-a-single-site

On Windows systems especially after an upgrade of Firefox that sort of error is often related to security software not recognising the new browser

• Fix problems connecting to websites after updating Firefox

Hi John, Thanks again for getting back to me. Shortly after my last post I put my PC on and it went into Mozilla with no issues at all. I assume that the Linux website has been brought up again by the administartors that operate Lynux. I am not really sure but everything seems back to normal now. Thanks

Andy

Great, I will mark your answer the solution

Hi John Ok on that, at least everything is online now. Maybe if I had thought about it a bit more I could have avoided bothering you. Thanks again for your help

Best regards

Andy