Troubleshooting slow web browser

CulleyS · 2010-03-13 18:04:21

Hello,

I am still a bit of a beginner when it comes to troubleshooting these things, so I apologize if I am too vague. I notice that whenever I open a new window or tab in a browser, it takes almost 10-15 seconds to load. I've tested firefox-3.6, chromium, epiphany, arora, seamonkey, and midori. All behave the same way. Now, once I am within a particular tab/window the browsers are very quick. Downloading and uploading over ftp is also very quick. 2.5mbps dl/500kbps ul on average. I am not even sure if it is a network issue, because when I ssh into a remote server, it's also very quick, usually only one or two seconds. Ping reports:

--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.451/33.333/34.482/0.781 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 45.481/46.800/47.950/1.111 ms

I have a couple other distros on this machine and other machines in my network (Ubuntu 9.10, for example)... and even on my wireless ASUS EEE netbook, which is far less powerful and on wireless, Firefox-3.6 can load new tabs/windows for sites like Google in just a couple seconds. All machines are behind the same firewall, but I only notice this problem with Arch Linux x86_64 so far (tested under Gnome and KDE).

My question is, then, are there some other things I can look at? Has anybody else experienced this? I tested the tmpfs speed improvement in the Arch wiki with Firefox for a few days. I noticed a slight improvement in terms of browsing once a tab/window/site had opened, but there was still a very slow lag to initially load a new tab/window/site.

However, since this is happening on very lightweight browsers like Epiphany, I'm fairly confident it isn't browser-specific/compilation related. And, as I have tested other distros on this machine, without a problem, I'm not sure it's related to the hardware or network.

Thanks for any advice,
Culley

loafer · 2010-03-13 18:08:26

Make sure your /etc/hosts is correct and you could try disabling ipv6.

CulleyS · 2010-03-14 03:03:24

Not sure if it worked, but disabling ipv6 seems to have made a difference at least in my initial tests.

Thanks.

cesura · 2010-03-14 03:47:54

There's some great videos out there on configuring firefox to be fast, or you could use swiftfox (like me):

http://getswiftfox.com/

skottish · 2010-03-14 04:54:50

CulleyS wrote:

Not sure if it worked, but disabling ipv6 seems to have made a difference at least in my initial tests.
Thanks.

ipv6 certainly can cause slowdowns, but it's not responsible for the numbers that you posted in the OP. Did you check /etc/hosts as loafer suggested? Problems there would be far more consistent with large slowdowns. If you're not sure what to look for, just post it here.

shami · 2010-03-14 13:12:53

Hi, I have same problem. Some page are loaded immediately, but some like images.google.com, youtube, facebook not. Even not load at all.

Images, css and js are not loaded in this page. That doing in all of my web browsers: Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, Chromium, Epiphany.

I don't know if this is problem of my provider (DNS maybe) or configuration of my OS. But I don't make change in my config files last days.

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 shami

I put here some screen:
http://bendo.freeiz.com/img/facebook.png
http://bendo.freeiz.com/img/google.png
If you need some information, I can post here. Sorry for my English. Thanks

Last edited by shami (2010-03-14 13:46:24)

skottish · 2010-03-14 14:52:19

shami wrote:

Hi, I have same problem. Some page are loaded immediately, but some like images.google.com, youtube, facebook not. Even not load at all.
Images, css and js are not loaded in this page. That doing in all of my web browsers: Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, Chromium, Epiphany.
I don't know if this is problem of my provider (DNS maybe) or configuration of my OS. But I don't make change in my config files last days.
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 shami
I put here some screen:
http://bendo.freeiz.com/img/facebook.png
http://bendo.freeiz.com/img/google.png
If you need some information, I can post here. Sorry for my English. Thanks

Your hosts file needs some work. This computer that I'm on is named iasE and this is most /etc/hosts:

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
 127.0.0.1       iasE.localdomain         iasE localhost

shami · 2010-03-14 17:06:39

Thanks I changed it. But this isn't resolve my problem. Maybe it isn't my problem but the provider fault. I don't understand why some webs loading fine, and some not. I'll ask some friends and then I'll call my provider.

After few days all works fine. So this was problem of my provider.

Last edited by shami (2010-03-31 18:27:02)

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Troubleshooting slow web browser

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