FireFox go slow on 11.1

[mingus725]

The Fasterfox and FasterFox Lite add-ons are worth a look (the main distinction being the former uses prefetch and the latter disables it).

[robopensuse]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

I find Firefox 3 slower that Firefox 2. I do not see that the Operating System openSUSE-11.1 Linux has anything to do with it, but rather it is the application itself (unless it is ipv6 as pointed out by caf4926 and a59).

Odd, I've found just the opposite.

FF2 was annoying, and FF3 has been a huge speed up! I have run it on machines 4, 1, 0.5 & 0.25 GiB RAM. I have had to disable IPv6 to get DNS resolution to work, but did it anyway with 10.3 just to keep things simple.

[geoffro]

Went through this howto and speeded up FF for me
How To Speed Up Firefox
There's another one here but bit harder
Speeding up Firefox the right way - Darrell Norton's Blog [MVP]

/Geoff

[csm58]

Originally Posted by a59

Hi Mat,

try to disable ipv6 in Firefox, and see- usually this works and is my first step while configuring web access.

1. in firefox URL bar, type 'about:config'
2. accept warning
3. in URL bar, type 'ipv6'
4. network.dns.disableIPv6 entry appears.
5. Double click this entry to set the value to true.

Now FF will try the more prevalent ipv4 protocol for name resolution.

hth,
a59

Thank you very much. It worked like a charm.