Originally Posted by Manacit

(I edited this into my post above, but I just wanted to post it here so everyone could see it)

think I have found the problem that people are having with firefox and getting it to work. When I was using the proxy I still had my wifi connection open (on my laptop), which wouldn't seem to matter (it looked like all of my traffic was going through the proxy), but it turns out that firefox was sitll using my wifi network NOT THE PROXY, for DNS requests (meaning that it wasn't using the proxy when there was no connection). This caused sites to not load. I had to go into firefox and change one thing: change network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to TRUE in about:config. Close the tab, then restart! With it set to false, nothing would load (save for stuff in my DNS cache), when I set it to true new sites that weren't in my DNS cache loaded fine . I hope that helps everyone - I am browsing now with my wifi turned off on my laptop.