On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:35, Carl E. Hartung wrote: ...................<snip a bunch of stuff>..................
-> in Firefox, select 'Edit' and 'Preferences'
-> select 'General' in the left panel, then 'Connection Settings' on the right
-> verify these settings are appropriate for your environment (select 'Direct connection...' unless you're using a proxy)
-> you should see 'localhost, 127.0.0.1' in the 'No Proxy for:' field
-> click 'OK'
-> enter 'about:config' in the main address bar.
-> scroll down until you see this entry:
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", false);
-> right-click on it and toggle it to "true"
-> close and restart Firefox.
-> go for a test drive and I hope you have improved results
In my opinion, all things being equal, Firefox /does/ seem a smidgen slower on this machine than I expected it to be. But it's performance isn't /bad/ either -- just possibly a little disappointing after all the hype?
Carl, And how about someone who is NOT running a network and has the same very slow loading problem with Firefox? Does ipv6 enter into also ? Bob S.