Getting on Internet with 13

[John Clark]

I can't seem to get my browser/email to connect to Internet. In 
terminal I can ping www.google.com to my hearts content but I can't 
connect to it with Firefox. I have no hair to pull out and I don't want 
to pull scalp. BTW, Ubuntu gets on just fine, out of the box, but I 
can't stand Debian Linux.