Problem resolved! I went to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information > Reset Firefox to its default state.
I've set the FF connection to 'no proxy', disabled the windows firewall, tried disabling IPv6, tried disabling DNS Prefetching.
I found the permission to display section and turned it on.
I went to user control panel to edit system specs. I then entered and saved the description of the netbook.
Thanks, RetiredLearner. There's not a lot to say but I've filled in as much as I can. It's just a netbook running XP SP3 with an atom CPU.
I have an interesting problem with a netbook that I don't often use. There are two users. For one, neither Firefox nor Thunderbird will connect...
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