From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H9S27-0003hP-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:14:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0NKDCgd022282; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:13:12 GMT Received: from ufies.org (ufies.org [65.110.12.162]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0NK98TG017740 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:09:08 GMT Received: by ufies.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8DCD61CC1F3; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:58:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:58:59 -0800 From: Alan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch Message-ID: <20070123195859.GN20601@ufies.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <45B663AF.2010905@charter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45B663AF.2010905@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 44b67898-29aa-400a-973b-5b6b4bc2a211 X-Archives-Hash: b0779a7d613eb599782e8e038520b04d On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:36:15PM +0000, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hello, > > I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load > the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as > of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but > that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binary ebuild/install but the > regular ebuild. See if you have the line 127.0.0.1 localhost in your /etc/hosts file. It might be a DNS lookup timeout issue. -- Alan - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list