firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

[Chuck Swiger]

benchmark wrote:
[ ... ]
> A few problems I noticed:
> a) firefox is very slow loading any site with images. For example,
> loading www.nyt.com, the text content comes up very quickly, but then
> it takes forever to load the images.
> 
> My question: is this a problem with my graphics or it's firefox? it
> seemed to me to be a problem with firefox.

Some of the adservers used on websites don't respond correctly to IPv6 AAAA 
queries, and cause DNS timeouts.  Try running bind with the -4 option to 
disable IPv6, and see whether that helps, and/or try switching to using a 
different nameserver, if you are using someone elses (ie, your ISP's).

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-Chuck