Slow web browsing?

Hi all,

Has anyone else had any problems with their web browsing lately? I did
an aptitude update and aptitude upgrade on the 18th of January and the
following packages were upgraded:
[UPGRADE] libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] libxv1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] xfonts-cyrillic 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] xlibmesa-gl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] xlibmesa-glu 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
[UPGRADE] xutils 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2 -> 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3

I'm running stable with some stuff off backports.org, like Firefox and
Thunderbird.

I can't pin down exactly what caused the problem, I've installed karm
and flashplayer-nonfree lately too, I've removed flashplayer and that
hasn't fixed the problem.

Now some web pages download really slowly - including www.debian.org!
The behavior goes something like this: I browse to that address and
Firefox (or Mozilla or Evolution, they all behave the same way for a
given web site, hence I suspect a library problem) contacts the server,
and starts transferring data, and displays the page incrementally in
teeny-tiny bits, about one graphic per second and up to 10 (wow, 10!)
words a second. Slowly, slowly the web page will be displayed
(rendered?) and eventually I'll get the page.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions that I can try to fix this? Am
I on the right track?

Thanks,
--
Greg Vickers
IT Security Engineer & Project Manager
IT Security, Network Services,
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology
L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane

Phone: +61 7 3138 9536
Mobile: 0410 434 734
Fax: +61 7 3138 2921
Email: g.vickers@xxxxxxxxxx
IT Security web site: http://www.its.qut.edu.au/itsecurity/

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