Re: mozilla and firefox slow on finding websites

From: Greg (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/07/05 

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:52:26 -0700

bdamon wrote:

> Marc Onrust wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my temporary office I'm hooking up my Suse 9.2 laptop to a windows
> network.
>> Everything works fine except the fact that it takes a while before
> both mozilla
>> and firefox find websites that I enter in the location bar (saying
> "resolving
>> host www.whatever.com" or "looking up www.whatever.com" for up to 5
> secs or
>> more), while in the same network konqueror doesn't seem to have this
> "problem"
>
>
> Marc
>
> In Firefox type in about:config in the address bar and hit enter. Look
> for the value network.dns.disableIpv6 and set it to true. Firefox is
> trying to use IPv6 and timing out.
>
> Ben

Thanks Ben -- Worked great for me too!

Greg

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