Safari and firefox not downloading

Just recently safari and firefox stopped allowing me to downloading things. Everytime i try to download something even from apple.com/downloads it doesn't work it doesn't even open then download manager. Can anyone help me ?

Frostbitblue,
in Safari’s Preferences, select its Security tab, and make sure that its “Internet plug-ins: Allow Plug-ins” checkbox is checked.

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Hello.
I have a Mac Pro with 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor and 3 GB of memory. I'm running OS X 10.6 and have almost 80 Gigs of free space.
A couple of days ago I started having problems with my internet being extremely slow. That has now transformed to no internet access at all, either with Safari or Firefox. Both apps will start, but neither will get past the initial load screen anymore.
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