I’m hoping if anyone has the same problem and finds this post, that they know of a fix.This has me stumped - I have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2, and was happily running Firefox 2.0.0.12 Suddenly, I was getting error 611 trying to send a gmail. So I tried to post to the gmail forums - it said an error has occured. So, I tried to login to Myspace, it said “length required”. Then I tried to post an item on ebay - it said there was an error. Safari worked fine on all those sites, but there’s no way I wanted to switch to THAT wreck of a browser! So, I cleared cache, cookies, disabled toolbars, ran CLAMxAV - everything I could think of. I also downloaded Firefox 3. Still the same. To prove the point to myself, I downloaded Opera, and all the sites worked fine.

But then, I downloaded Camino and Flock, and it was exactly the same errors as I was getting with Firefox.

What the…?!? It seems like any Gecko based web browser cannot do anything that involves a certain type of POST function - and yet, it gets weirder. I can log IN to gmail and ebay, but not post anything. But I cannot login to Myspace it says “length required” and the mozillazine forums is as if the name and password boxes were empty. What can I do?! I’ve also totally deleted the whole Firefox profile, scanned the drive for permission problems and errors etc.

Note: This story is starting to get some interest - see also Apple Support, Mozillazine, Google Groups and the Flock posts on this subject. Please also Digg it! (See below)

UPDATE! Thanks to the genius work of user swingsetpark in the Mozillazine forums, this has now been resolved.

See this post for the solution

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