[Xubuntu Intrepid] ICS slows down Firefox...

[aquanull]

I'm using the "Ubuntu Internet Gateway Method (iptables)" method on the page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Internet/ConnectionSharing

It works, but Firefox (3.0.11) becomes sluggish. Menus, combo-boxes, file dialogs etc. are now delayed and lagged for seconds. Disabling all extensions/add-ons doesn't help at all.

Other softwares like Thunar are still as fast as before.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs? Also, please answer these questions:
Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to it?
Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which Firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[aquanull (aquanull)]

I'd like to help you track down this problem, but I can't reproduce it or answer your questions right now as I have got transfered and no longer been working with the same hardware, software & network environments in question 6 months before, and I don't recall what packages/extensions I was using with Firefox then. However, if I recall correctly, I was using Firefox out-of-the-box, probably with only the latest Adblock Plus and ChatZilla installed by hand. Anyway, I must have tested with all extensions disabled and still had slow Firefox.

If I reproduce this problem someday (maybe in July or sooner when I get back to my old desktop), I'll feed the requested info to you. Thank you for replying me and I'm sorry for being unable to do help with this bug better .

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Any further updates on this issue? We really would like to know if it is still an issue, since firefox has now been upgraded to the latest version. Thanks!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it appears to have been fixed in the latest version of firefox. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!