Firefox loads pages extremely slowly

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Since installing openSuse 11.0 last week, I’ve noticed that Firefox seems to be running extremely slow (downloading pages).

I use Lenovo 3000 N100 in a dual-boot system with XP. I previously had Ubuntu 7.04 in the same dual-boot arrangement. I never noticed a slowness problem there.

Wondering if it was really slow, I did an experiment, comparing the page download times on the XP side (also using Firefox) with those I’m getting under openSuse.

To: //// XP time: [INDENT] Suse time:
nytimes.com :05 // :20
Google search :02 // :11
back to nytimes <:02 // <:02
NYT Technology :02 // :25+ (loading icon kept spinning)
NYT/Tech/story :02 // :20
cwru.edu :09 // :40
whitehouse.gov :05 // :11

It also took :22 to get to the openSuse forum page and another :15 for the login page to open.

Same wireless card;same router/AP; same modem (DSL).

Could I have some settings wrong? (I have all the updates downloaded and installed.)

Thanks.

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Have you disabled IPv6 as mentioned in other threads in this forum?

Good luck.

SuseNeo wrote:
> Since installing openSuse 11.0 last week, I’ve noticed that Firefox
> seems to be running extremely slow (downloading pages).
>
> I use Lenovo 3000 N100 in a dual-boot system with XP. I previously had
> Ubuntu 7.04 in the same dual-boot arrangement. I never noticed a
> slowness problem there.
>
> Wondering if it was really slow, I did an experiment, comparing the
> page download times on the XP side (also using Firefox) with those I’m
> getting under openSuse.
>
> To: //// XP time: [INDENT] Suse time:
> nytimes.com :05 // :20
> Google search :02 // :11
> back to nytimes <:02 // <:02
> NYT Technology :02 // :25+ (loading icon kept
> spinning)
> NYT/Tech/story :02 // :20
> cwru.edu :09 // :40
> whitehouse.gov :05 // :11
>
> It also took :22 to get to the openSuse forum page and another :15 for
> the login page to open.
>
> Same wireless card;same router/AP; same modem (DSL).
>
> Could I have some settings wrong? (I have all the updates downloaded
> and installed.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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This seemed to work. (Followed steps in the thread
FireFox go slow on 11.1 - openSUSE Forums.)

Is there any explanation anywhere as to why this needs to be done in this situation but not in general (with other distros; with Firefox in XP;…)?

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XP does not use IPv6. It is available after a certain SP, but even then, you have to add it to your network stack. Even if you do add it to XP, it is unsupported by most ISPs.

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Why does FF enable IPV6 when most ISPs don’t support IPV6 (for now)? This default setting is a problem for every LinuxBeginner …

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So is there an easy (non-geek) way to turn it off for the whole computer–would that help my other internet activity (mail, in particular)?

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This has come up several times in the forums, which is why it was
suggested so quickly. Search through them, or you can probably find it
via Yast: Network Devices: Network Card and then head on into that
section of Yast for the details.

Good luck.

SuseNeo wrote:
> So is there an easy (non-geek) way to turn it off for the whole
> computer–would that help my other internet activity (mail, in
> particular)?
>
>
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