OK I think know what the problem is, this is a virtual machine installation rather then a real installation, correct?

Tell us more about your emulation software. Because I think that the emulator could be a factor in your inability to get a functional Firefox install.

The assumption is that the VM will function just like a physical machine, good in theory but not so good in real life.

So here is what I think, the VM has an IP and MAC address that is different from the physical machine. Or they could be the exactly the same and that could also be a problem.

Also make sure that you have the Firewall turned off in Vector.

actually i have tried starting and stopping the firewall but still same problem arises. . . to think also the SEAMONKEY browser does not work

Try installing firefox in the same directory as KDE. This may work since Konqueror is working whereas the other browsers are not.

do you think this will solve the problem? btw, i have not experienced it when VL is the ONLY guest OS installed in my VM.. when i started installing Suse as the 2nd guest OS.. that's the time.. my problem happened..

to think.. in my suse.. BOTH browsers does not work. ..

hi.. just installed FC9 in my VM.. and with the same setup in network and in the Proxy used, my internet worked in FF

All distros a constructed and packaged differently. They may have common elements such as the kernel and standard apps like open office. I guess that there must have been something in the distro build that you had that made it work the way it did for you.