Facebook and Yahoo

I have two macbook pros and i can't open facebook or yahoo.com on either one. I have no problems opening these websites on my windows desktop.

Will someone help me fix this problem.

Thanks.

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What browser are you using? Can you clear the cache of whichever browser you are using and try again? What happens or what errors do you get when you try to load those sites?

Thank you for the reply Ashwin.

I tried clearing the cache but after loging onto the sites one time the second time the same thing happens. I don't get any errors... the webpage will just load forever if i let it.

It happens both with safari and chrome...

thanks

Is it just Facebook and Yahoo that don't work on your Macs? That seems extremely unlikely. Try going to different websites. You are probably not connected to any Wifi connections on your Macs.

Lol Steve, I'm a bit more computer literate than that lol yes i'm connected to wifi and yes from your everyday popular websites these are the only two i cannot open.

That is a strange one. What version of OSX are you running on the Macbook Pros?

I have noticed since switching to Mountain Lion here, Mac Forums sometimes sits there. I do a refresh and it loads, but never an issue with Facebook or Yahoo.

I'm running OS X 10.5.8

When the problem started happening, i actually formatted my macbook pro. However that didn't solve my problem either as i still cannot open these websites.

Could it possibly be a problem with my internet provided? the only thing is i have no issues running it on my windows desktop...

If clearing the cache makes it work once and then fail, perhaps it's an issue with cookies that are getting corrupted after the first time that makes them fail.

Did you recently do an upgrade or or something? Perhaps a permission repair might be in order to make sure things are OK..

See that is my issue with your problem, it does work on other machines. If it was a problem per se with your ISP, you would think that every machine connected to your internet would display the same issues. So with a brand new FRESH install and nothing else added, you still can't access those two sites? Out of the install there should be no issues. Are you migrating from a backup after the install?

Since you say Chrome does it also, that eliminates Safari.

Edit: I think Ashwin and I are on the same page on this.

@dtravis, Yup, this thing is freaking making me crazy. Fresh out of an install I couldn't open yahoo.com. it was getting crunch time for my fantasy football draft to begin on yahoo and as soon as the install was complete the first thing i did was try to run yahoo.com on safari and nothing...

unfortunately i had to use windows... we know how that goes...

@raz0redge

permission repair didn't do it either. The craziest thing about it is that both my macbook pro and macbook air have the SAME FREAKING ISSUE!!!!!!

WTH else can it be????

Let me do some thinking and I will get back to you. This is a strange one for sure. Going to boot up my 10.5 machine and see how that fares.

Thanks everybody... i really appreciate your help.

Hmm interesting that two OS X based machines would present this problem while Windows is immune to it. I think you're in the Dennis' capable hands and hopefully he'll come up with a theory on this..

Before the re-install, did you have no issue with either of these sites?

I just tried both sites on my old Mini with 10.5.8 and both go right in. Reason I was curious is with 10.3 Panther in the last year there are a couple of sites that just sit there and will no longer go in. It's the old version of Safari and the changing WEB of today, but in 10.5's case, that is not the issue. Will see what I can figure out.

Do you know much about the terminal? If so, open it and ping Yahoo!. See if you get replies from the site. Also in the browser, enter in the IP of Yahoo instead of the Domain name. Can't hurt to try! Reason for this is trying to see if it's a DNS issue.

Here is the IP for Yahoo. 72.30.38.140

This is what I see when I ping Yahoo in the terminal.

Denniss-iMac:~ dtravis7$ ping Yahoo!
PING ds-any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com (72.30.38.140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=13.410 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=98.707 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=106.712 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=31.367 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=103.171 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=13.823 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=68.178 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=18.497 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=82.927 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=62.739 ms
64 bytes from 72.30.38.140: icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=40.681 ms

unfortunately the reason for my re-install was because i couldn't open either of these sites. it started with facebook first...for awhile it wouldn't work then came yahoo.

ok, when i try it with the ip address the load bar gets about half way before nothing else happens... with the domain it gets about 1/8 of the way...

this is what i get in the terminal:

ovaness-macbook-pro:~ Hovik$ ping Yahoo!
ping: cannot resolve Yahoo!: Unknown host

oo... with the ip address the site opens after a while but it is in a weird layout... all of the icons and links are on the left side of the browser. i tried clicking on one of the links and it went to the "autos" page in yahoo. perfect layout. but when i click the yahoo home button on the top right the homepage won't open...

this is the fail message i get

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.yahoo.com/” because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection. This sometimes occurs when the server is busy. Wait for a few minutes, and then try again.

The site changed what I told you to type to a url. In the terminal type in www dot yahoo dot com.

Again strange one for sure. I get the complete site if I type the address into Safari.