Afterlifesol wrote "I bet you are having issues with bug #417757 at least with your laptop it made my system feel slow and icky".
Thanks for pointing me at that. Looking at the bug report and related forum discussions I agree my upgrade to 9.10 has two separate issues - this ttf-mscorefonts one and the IPv6 DNS lookups. Naively I had assumed I had just one set of related problems - it is worse than I thought... sigh!
Afterlifesol wrote "I bet you are having issues with bug #417757 at least with your laptop it made my system feel slow and icky".
Thanks for pointing me at that. Looking at the bug report and related forum discussions I agree my upgrade to 9.10 has two separate issues - this ttf-mscorefonts one and the IPv6 DNS lookups. Naively I had assumed I had just one set of related problems - it is worse than I thought... sigh!