firefox performance on Freebsd

Dak Ghatikachalam dghatikachalam at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 01:35:37 UTC 2007


> Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> >
> > I am noticing singnificant performance degradation  in firefox in
> > Freebsd ,
> > I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I
> > run XP.
> >
> >
> > for comparison purpose
> >
> > I notice the same page  when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on
> > Windows XP it loads real quick.
> >
> > Is this link
> >
> > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
> >
> > Good place to start the tuning of firefox.
> >
> > Is there something more than this I could do to speed up the
> > performace of
> > firefox in Freebsd ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dak
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On 1/17/07, nicky <nicky at valuecare.nl> wrote:
>
> Have you disabled the IPv6?
>
> in about:config set 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true.
>
> Greetz.


I have  the output of ifconfig -a Does it say that I am running  ipv4 or
ipv6

and my current  network.dns.disableIPv6 is false

$ ifconfig -a
fwe0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether 06:e4:0a:19:50:37
        ch 1 dma -1
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::20a:e4ff:fed7:bb00%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:0a:e4:d7:bb:00
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1412
        inet6 fe80::20a:e4ff:fed7:bb00%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet 10.40.1.100 --> 10.40.1.100 netmask 0xffffffff
        Opened by PID 784
$


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