Links from facebook and elsewhere are not opening, probably because of some setting issues, how can I rectify?

Question

I tried the same links from google chrome and they are working fine but when i try them on mozilla firefox, the new tab that opens says "page cannot be found". These links are usually to other sites such as goal.com and alike. Sometimes, surprisingly and confusingly, when I reload the page starts to work or when I reopen it but usually it doesn't. I am quite happy with life using Mozilla. Please fix this bug or setting disorder.

Answer 1

See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions?qid=208280684
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked