[Discuss] firefox question

[Peter Withler]

Since my last post I uninstalled FF 1.5.... and installed the latest, FF 
2.0.0.1. That made no difference in performance. The Windows machine on 
the same network is fine so I think it must be a setting on the core5 
install. I don't know anything about domain name servers etc. but could 
this be some kind of name resolution problem?

I'll try the FTP etc and see how it is for speed etc.

Thanks.

Peter.

Kari Kostamo wrote:
> Good day Peter
>
> I would download the latest version of firefox, remove the current one you
> are using and then install the latest one.
>
> Do you have another computer you can network to to test the connection speed
> internally?
>
> Are any other programs running very slowly: FTP, e-mail, ping, traceroute,
> etc...
>
> There may be some other reason for the slow internet connection.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at nanlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at nanlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Peter Withler
> Sent: December 30, 2006 8:53 PM
> To: discuss at nanlug.org
> Subject: [Discuss] firefox question
>
> My Firefox (default version 1.5.0.1-9) is very sluggish. Except for Google,
> it either loads a page very slowly or not at all.
>
> This is a new install of Fedora Core 5. The machine has an onboard LAN card
> and a Linksys LNE100TX PCI LAN card. During the install I specified
> deactivating the onboard LAN card (eth0) and activating the Linksys card
> (eth1). I read that core 5 has drivers for this card so I haven't installed
> any drivers for it. Some settings (from the menu) that I checked follow:
>
> Network Proxy Preferences is set to "Direct Internet Connection"
>
> System/Administration/Network/Devices confirms eth0 is InActive and eth1 is
> Active.
> System/Administration/Network/Hardware confirms the Linksys card is eth1,
> and both eth0 and eth1 are "Ok".
> System/Administration/Network/DNS/Primary DNS = 64.59.160.13
> System/Administration/Network/DNS/Secondary DNS = 64.59.160.15
> System/Administration/Network/DNS/Tertiary DNS = blank
> System/Administration/Network/DNS/DNS search path = pk.shawcable.net
>
> System/Administration/Services NetworkManager is stopped
> System/Administration/Services NetworkManagerDispatcher is stopped
>
>
> As I said above, Firefox works but really slowly. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Peter.
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