1) Only finds Novell Home page unless you set DNS servers in the Network Configuration -- don't want to do this as I'm going through a DHCP / ADSL router.

2) Konqueror works fine without the DNS --gets the data (as it should do from the DHCP server -- a D-LINK ADSL router)

Any ideas --- I'm not using a Proxy or anythinng.

BTW Firefox in Windows XP Pro works fine without the DNS being hard coded in the network settings either.

Cheers
-K

Something seriously wrong here. Firefox works on 9.1 without any problems.

I do not see why the dns or your router is even involved. Assuming the Novell page is from file and not a web call then I would assume the Firefox code has a flaw.

Load a fresh Firefox direct from mozilla.org and install that. I expect there is a flaw in the rpm on 9.3 as I have loaded firefox on many distro's and never had the experience you have come across.

load the tar.gz and enter the command in the directory that you have downloaded the file in with the command

gunzip -c firefox???? | tar xvf -

works OK with 9.1 but have scrapped 9.3 because the apache 64 bit code is faulty. I hope to try the SuSE 10 b3 today and will be checking the firefox and apache out. I'll let you know if there is a problem on this thread. So have another try with the latest Firefox it really is the best browser around.

Try a new profile first.
On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the the -profilemanager switch, e.g. ./firefox -profilemanager (this assumes that you're in the firefox directory).

Firefox screwed up on me a few months ago where it would not go to certain webpages, and creating a new profile fixed the problem.

Just curious, but what version of Firefox are you using? The latest at least for the Beta is 1.0.6-9. Installing a newer version if you can might help.

Standard diagnostic - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

You should also check /etc/resolv.conf to make sure it has the correct DNS nameservers listed.
They should be the same ones your router uses. You can add different ones as well.

If none of the above work, completely uninstall; making sure to delete all of the directories.
These are the important files you might want to save:

# bookmarks.html Bookmarks.
# prefs.js Current user preferences.
# user.js User-added preferences (overrides prefs.js every startup).
# cookies.txt Cookies.
# hostperm.1 Cookies permissions, image permissions, and extension website install permissions list.
# signons.txt Saved passwords. Requires the "key3.db" file to work.
# key3.db Supplements password file.

Then reinstall using YAST/YOU.

I downloaded a new copy of Fire Fox from Mozilla, 1.0.6, it is working fine for me on Suse 9.1.
Good luck with this.