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Yes, I did check the VPN and made sure it wasn't running. However, I didn't know it wasn't running properly and therefore didn't think it could be blocking my access when I had turned it off.

Thank you everyone for all your detailed help! I am amazed! I appear to have found the problem. I had installed a Mullvad VPN and it wasn't installed correctly, I believe. I downloaded the install from their site which may not have been 100% install ready. A friend of mine came up with the VPN ...

DukeComposed:
I successfully made the backup/copy of the resolv.conf and the edit you gave. It did confirm I was pointing to 1.1.1.1 with the cat command. However when I tried the "ping -c 4 www.google.com" it responded "ping: www.google.com: Name or service not known". I tried my browsers and still ...

DukeComposed
The cat command gave me another IP address and not the 1.1.1.1 address. I should have stated that I have another laptop running Windows and do not have an issue connecting to the web. I'm using it to reach this forum. I also tried the ping command for mxlinux.org and received "Name or ...

Kermit
I tried the entry exactly as given. It prompted me for my password which I entered. I then displayed "nameserver 1.1.1.1". However my browsers still do not connect.

I hadn't used my Framework laptop in a couple months, then used the updates available as shown in the system tray recently.

Currently:
Xfce Ver 4.18
Kernal Ver 6.1.0-26-amd-64
Framework 64 with AMD Ryzen 5

The next time I logged in I tried all my browsers but cannot now connect to the internet ...