Slow page loading in firefox

[Choy Kho Yee]

On 2004/09/24, at 13:15, Choy Kho Yee wrote:

> Hello, I am using FreeBSD 5.3BETA5. I haven't do anything to the 
> kernel or anything system-related. I installed firefox 0.9.3. It takes 
> more than 10 seconds to load mozilla's homepage. Of course other 
> accessing to other sites gave the same results.
>
> Then, to compare, I installed opera 7.54 and it loads pages in less 
> than 2 seconds. However, firefox is my favourite browser. So, is there 
> any way that I can know what is wrong? Does firefox keeps some logs 
> when it connects? Or has anyone else experience the same problem?
>
> btw, I installed softwares from the ports collection.

I solved the problem myself. I think the culprit is the IPv6 option in 
the kernel. So I disable it and recompiled the kernel now firefox works 
like it is supposed to work.

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