[Discuss] RE: firefox question

[Peter Withler]

ALFRED PRATT wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Another thing you may want to look at is your video driver. Don't ask me why, but I had this on a new Linspire install. Using the detected video driver for the on-board video killed the network and when I switched to the VESA driver the network came back.
>
> Alfred
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Thanks Alfred. This box has onboard video and an installed card too just 
to make things interesting. The onboard video doesn't work but I didn't 
specifically disable it. So this could be related to your experience. So 
many variables, so little time!

Thanks.

Peter.