null Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 I really, really, love firefox - however, there is one thing... Since I have been exclusively using my new FC2 box, I have noticed that web pages just take forever to load (well, at least alot of them do). For example, I go to nba.com sometimes and it takes FOREVER to load completely. It says at the bottom "transferring data from ad.doubleclick.net" or something like that. The main part of the page is loaded quickly (the parts I care about) and I know it is the banners at the top, or the ads over on the right side of the screen that are taking forever to load. It is just irritating to have my mouse pointer being an hourglass for 5 minutes on every page I go to. I have gotten in the habit, even though a page hasn't finished loading the ads, to just click the Stop Loading button at the top.. Now, when I used to use my win2k machine (I also used firefox on that machine), the exact same pages loaded much quicker. Very quick in fact. I have broadband. Is there something to do to alleviate this situation ? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Which Kernel are you using, I've encountered and read about some problems such as you are experiencing with the 2.6 kernels, in particular with secure sites.... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 how do I tell what kernel I'm using? what's the command? I have a FC2 install - whatever kernel comes with FC2. I have also read some things about "my firefox seems very slow..." - I think on my LUG mailing list some guy was complaining about it. hmmm... I just realized I called my thread "Firefox" just like Ix's earlier thread. Sorry Ix, I'll change the thread title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 open a terminal and type: uname -r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 2.6.6-1.427 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrsach01 Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Are you using Wine (ie Crossover) to get Flash working? I've found that this increases my page loading time significantly. I never timed it but my aggrevation level was VERY high. Once I switch to the native linux Flash player, I become much mor calm. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 It's a well known problem with the 2.6 kernel's implementation of the ipv6 protocol. Try adding this line to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off that turns off ipv6 and has worked for me when I noticed the same problem. Reboot for the new setting to take effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 definately much faster !! thanks pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 definately much faster !! thanks pmpatrick <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is from my Debian system: # Uncomment the network protocols you don't want loaded: # alias net-pf-1 off # Unix # alias net-pf-2 off # IPv4 alias net-pf-3 off # Amateur Radio AX.25 alias net-pf-4 off # IPX alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk alias net-pf-6 off # Amateur Radio NET/ROM alias net-pf-9 off # X.25 alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6 alias net-pf-11 off # ROSE / Amateur Radio X.25 PLP alias net-pf-19 off # Acorn Econet Might that help with speeds too? As far as I know, the only ones you need are the first two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 tisk tisk tisk, you should have read the FAQ ;-) http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mozillaipv6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSS Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 Wow, what a great tip! Didn't think mine was too slow but big difference. Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 here's my tip :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plati Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 epiphany? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plati Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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