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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:46:05 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        benchmark <zslist@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail
Message-ID:  <426EB69D.6030901@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <a0082888050426143464a3a149@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a0082888050426143464a3a149@mail.gmail.com>

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benchmark wrote:
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> 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).

-- 
-Chuck



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