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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #32561
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 32561

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kacheng (kacheng) wrote : Re: Firefox in Dapper much slower than official upstream builds

I tried the Mozilla binaries, disabling IPv6, and disenabling Pango, but still encountered this problem.

I found a solution to this slowness problem that is in fact related to DNS.

It seems my resolv.conf file had a bad listing which led to a timeout conditions, considerably slowing down web browsing.

My resolv.conf originally looked like:
 search etob.phub.net.cable.rogers.com
 nameserver 192.168.1.1 <-- problem entry
 nameserver 24.153.22.67
 nameserver 24.153.23.66

I had changed my router address so it wouldn't conflict with my VPN and so 192.168.1.1 is no longer valid.

Changing my resolv.conf file to fixes the problem:
 search etob.phub.net.cable.rogers.com
 nameserver 192.168.17.1
 nameserver 24.153.22.67
 nameserver 24.153.23.66

Works great for me. Can anyone else confirm this solution?