Minion cannot connect to internet

[robayche]

I removed and reinstalled Minion and it works now and all of my addons were still there.

[Clattuc]

I have had this problem when traveling with my VPN active. Disconnecting the VPN seemed to fix it. I just reconnect after the update. Of course Minion shouldn't behave this way, but working around freeware weirdness is part of our computer lives