Ubuntu 12.04 Google connection problem

Solution 1:

This is not a complete answer but I think we should try to check that the problem is browser independent. Could you try the following in a terminal ?

telnet accounts.google.com 80

If the connection to accounts.google.com establishes, enter :

GET / HTTP/1.1

And end the line with two line breaks.

If the answer comes almost immediately (it should say 302 Moved after the HTTP headers), then your computer is perfectly able of establishing a connection to the Google accounts services. If you get a timeout issue at this step, or before, then it is browser independent.

In this last case, I would recommend checking firewall and global network configuration. There's also the very unlikely case where your router has set up restrictions for your machine.