Error Message when opeing certain URL's in Firefox on VB WXP

[Airpilot]

Greetings:

I am running Virtual Box on a Win7 laptop, with WXP and Firefox installed in the VB. The internet connection is supplied by a virtual URL tether to a cell phone when in VB mode. All of this works properly.

When I open the Firefox browser in the VB, most URL's will load properly, but some, specifically all gmail.google.com URL's, result in this error message:

"The URL is not valid, and cannot be loaded",

even though these URL's are definitely valid.

Sometimes a notice

"Expired Certificate, SSL gstatic.com:443"

appears. Either way, the URL never does load.

What do these error messages mean, and how can I fix or work around them?

Thanks,

Airpilot

[mpack]

I suggest you ask about Firefox problems in a Firefox forum in the first instance. I use Firefox in lots of VMs and have never had any problem.

[scottgus1]

I too have had no problems getting Firefox to run properly in a VM. Can you open the Firefox-failing URL's in IE or Chrome in your VM? Can you open the failing URL's in your host on Firefox successfully, while the same URLs are fialing in the guest? It could just be a Firefox problem, or maybe it's the tether thing. Report back, when a URL fails on the guest firefox, whether it works in the guest IE or on the host firefox & IE.

[Airpilot]

Hi mpack - yes, I did that as well, but I wanted some guidance from this forum as well - and it has been helpful.

Hi Scottgus - I tried using IE in the VM window in my notebook, and I don't see the problem I reported when using Firefox. This would seem to imply that the problem is with Firefox, except that, in VM on my laptop (both notebook and laptop use Win 7 o/s) both IE and Firefox work properly. I suspect a parameter problem in the notebook.

Solution for now - run IE in the notebook when Firefox fails to load known URL's. A work-around at best, but it'll do until I get to the bottom of this.

Thanks for your help!

Airpilot