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 1H9phQ-0000sb-SN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:30:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0OLTO1G012601; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:29:24 GMT Received: from smtp-02.datacomm.ch (smtp-02.datacomm.ch [212.40.2.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0OLP6le007761 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:25:07 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.4] (bas-flu-adsl-dynip-201-183.vtx.ch [83.228.201.183]) by smtp-02.datacomm.ch (VTX Datacomm AG) with ESMTP id B86FE2A4078 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:25:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45B7DC62.3060800@charter.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:23:30 +0000 From: Gabriel Rossetti User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch References: <45B663AF.2010905@charter.net> <20070123195859.GN20601@ufies.org> In-Reply-To: <20070123195859.GN20601@ufies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af0c4565-f0e6-4663-a508-23de45ca3253 X-Archives-Hash: 94113f829e419ff3d88400c6eecb7c76 Alan wrote: > 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. > yes, I have that, but I had that before in my previous installation. FF seems slower (at launch) at school where they have a proxy server. If my memory is correct, it seems to do that when I go from my home network to my school's network and vice versa. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list