I keep getting this error in Firefox; what is the problem?

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It’s not possible to say without some troubleshooting to pin down the cause, but if it is happening in both Firefox and IE, you can pretty much set the browser aside. It is likely deeper that that. Since it is happening on lots of different sites, you can pretty much eliminate the sites being too busy also. So that leaves your network connection and issues to do with proxy settings and firewall. Look to those issues.

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