Bug#645017: iceweasel is unbearably slow at navigating to urls.

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 10/11/2011 03:51 PM, join_doe wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropiate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>         About a couple of weeks ago i updated my system. Cant remember the
> exact time og the packages installed.
>         At some point after the update I noticed that browsing the web was
> extremely slow. At first i thought it was my connection and so started testing
> its download speed - I have 20mb connection.
>         It turned out thought the download speed was fine.
>         What i discovered was that the initial connection to a site was what
> took soooo long. Once the page was loaded navigating the site went at normal
> speed.
>         However as soon at one navigated to another domain then the initial
> loading would take for ever.

This smells very much like a problem with delayed/laggy DNS lookups, and
not a problem with the web browser.

Is it possible that you have two (or more) nameservers listed in
/etc/resolv.conf, and one (or more) of them is unresponsive?

>         I've since uninstalled iceweasel and epiphany out of frustration, and
> Im now using chrome which does not have the proble - pages load within a
> second, whereas iceweasel takes about 10 secs or more.

So 10 seconds is "unbearably slow" now?  wow i feel old :)

hth,

	--dkg

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