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#1 2012-12-16 23:16:25
- Yorak
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[Solved] Firefox Originally Starts Slow
I am on a new installation here for testing purposes. I am fairly sure I only have this problem in Gnome, but I could just now be noticing it. Basically the first time I load Firefox after booting into my Arch setup, it takes a long time for it to connect to a webpage. Firefox itself starts fast. I have done all of the tweaks listed in the wiki, but it does not seem to help that initial page loading. It takes a good 30 seconds to load any page. After that, it is very speedy. Is this a network issue rather than a Firefox issue? It very well could be. I am running the latest of everything in the official repositories. Perhaps I will try disabling IPv6 functionality to see if it helps. Any other recommendations are greatly appreciated. :-)
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#2 2012-12-16 23:34:43
- omeringen
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Re: [Solved] Firefox Originally Starts Slow
I've had similar issues, disabling IPv6 solved that. I can't actually remember which way i used on my previous installation (you can set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true at about:config on firefox or you can edit kernel parameters.) The interesting thing is i haven't had this issue since i got a clean install, not sure what changed.
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#3 2012-12-16 23:39:58
- Yorak
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Re: [Solved] Firefox Originally Starts Slow
I've had similar issues, disabling IPv6 solved that. I can't actually remember which way i used on my previous installation (you can set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true at about:config on firefox or you can edit kernel parameters.) The interesting thing is i haven't had this issue since i got a clean install, not sure what changed.
Okay, now we are in business. I remembered doing this before (last time I was using Gnome - again, I do not know why it seems isolated to a specific DE), but could not remember if that is what had fixed it last time. Everything seems to be peppy again, thanks. :-)
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