I have recently installed Fedora 18 in my laptop. Earlier I was using Fedora 17. I have also installed latest version of Firefox. But I find that I can notload yahoo.com page in it. Some other web pages are also not been reached through it. I have dual booting system along with Windows 7 in my laptop. And in windows I found that yahoo is loading fine in Internet Explorer. Those pages were loading fine without any problem in earlier version of Firefox in Fedora 17. I tried Chrome and Chromium also. But the same problems are occurring there also. I searched in net about any documentation relating this type of problem. I got some suggestions like deleting history, cache etc. But nothing is working in my case.
-SKD

Are you talking about www.yahoo.com? I can't replicate your problem. Yahoo loads without problem on my Iceweasel. It also loads normally on Chrome. Can you tell us what error message you received when you tried loading Yahoo. It doesn't sound like a Fedora issue. Maybe it's your DNS or ISP that's having problems. Maybe the server was overloaded or down when you tried to load it. I detailed description of what happened or happens would be most useful.
jdk

just how did you install the latest FF
?
or
the "firefox-22.0.tar.bx2 "

as of ff21 the folder layout changed
plugins are no longer in
-- installing the tarball to /usr/opt
/usr/opt/firefox/plugins
-- it is NOW
/usr/opt/firefox/browser/plugins

also things like flash and all media plugins will not be installed ( by default)

also fedora 18 ( fedora 19 is NOW the current ) installs OpenJDK 1.7
it does not use Oracles Java 1.7

is it ONLY :
http://www.yahoo.com/
or are other pages not loading

are security plugins installed, like
No-script
Ad Block plus
Ghostery

Yes, it is http://www.yahoo.com. It stopped at "waiting for in.yahoo.com.."
Yes, it must not be Fedora issue. But it certainly has something to do with Firefox. Websites like gmail.com, hotmail.com etc. are loading fine with it. But not yahoo.com. But in the same laptop from Windows 7 yahoo.com is loading fine in internet explorer. In fact, while I was using Fedora 17 here, yahoo.com was loading in Firefox.

Yes, I installed Firefox by I installed ad block plus but not ghostery.

I am using Sun Java.

and you did remove the already installed openjdk
OR IF NOT
set "alternatives" to use Oracles JAVA 1.7 ( sun no longer exists ) over the system default OpenJDK
the java that fedora uses is called "IcedTea"

so it is only the Yahoo mail inbox
and not yahoo.com

a cookie or java issue

did you remove cookies for yahoo

or
that might be a jvm issue if the system change from openjdk to Oracles jvm was not done correctly

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...-red-hat-rhel/

and see the Mjmwired page for java
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f18.html#java
also java 1.7 no longer uses the java-plugin like 1.6 did

I have not removed openjdk but used alternative exactly according the way that is described in http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f18.html#java. Thing is that I have been using Sun/oracle java always the same way in fedora and uptil Fedora 17 it was working fine.

Yes, I started www.yahoo.com and it stopped at "waiting for in.yahoo.com.."

I tried by removing cookies but it didn't work.

as a test try this
In your home folder there is a hidden folder called "./mozilla
in that folder is this
./mozilla/forefox/????????.default
" the 8 ????????" is a string of random numbers

rename it to "./mozilla/forefox/????????.default.backup"
and restart firefox and go to yahoo.com

and if that dose not work rename
./java to ./java.backup
and retry

The first one didn't work. And I could not find ./java in home directory.