From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 21:46:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBC516A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:46:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1DF43D31 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:46:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCB25CE7; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:46:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45751-09; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56D85C52; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:46:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <426EB69D.6030901@mac.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:46:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: benchmark References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:46:28 -0000 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). -- -Chuck