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  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #417757
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 417757

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camper365 (camper365) wrote : Firefox is slow by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

By default, when Firefox 3.5 is installed, web pages are loaded slowly and it looks like IPv6 DNS lookups is the cause. However, you can go to about:config and change network.dns.disableIPv6 to true, the problem gets fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 23 12:06:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.26-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic i686