ongoing mozilla problems

[Eric Anderson]

Chris Shenton wrote:

>Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
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>>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:58, Nate Lawson wrote:
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>>>>Any page that includes links to imgs on other pages hangs while loading.
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>>>>
>>>At least one user has reported that an old IPv6-related resolver bug has
>>>resurfaced in 1.6-based browsers.  If you have IPv6 in your kernel, you
>>>might try removing it temporarily (if you can) to see if this helps
>>>matters.  Other users have reported similar hangs in the past when
>>>trying to load images off of ad caching servers. 
>>>      
>>>
>>I disabled IPv6 and it appears to be working fine again.
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>I noticed this on my home 5.2-CURRENT systems with Mozilla-1.6.  When
>I just upgraded my work's 4.9-STABLE system with Moz-1.6 via
>portupgrade and now I see it there too.
>
>At home I can't disable IPv6 on CURRENT as X11R6-4.3.99.12 seems to
>need it to work.  
>
>On both systems, I am running DJBDNS's "dnscache".  When I see Mozilla
>hang trying to resolve (something like ad.doubleclick.net) I can
>immediately resolve it from a shell with "dnsip ad.doubleclick.net".
>So it definitely seems something mozilla specific.
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>
Try this when starting X:

startx -- -pn

Eric



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