On 07/03/2010 04:04 AM, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 23:06 -0700, JD wrote: >> I use the gnome terminal to nslookup whatever-domain-it-was.com >> and it resolves it in less than a second. I look at firefox, and it is >> still trying to resolve!! Firefox seems to use some other way to >> resolve the url's domain - the painfully slow way!! > Two things spring to mind: > > Does the browser go through a proxy? If so, that proxy will do the > resolving. > > Are you using the Firefox features to check for bad websites? > Only add-on which checks for bad web sites is RequestPolicy which checks for cross-site request forgery. However, it is disabled!! And no, I am not using a proxy. Also, FF seems to use a single socket file descriptor for all the FF windows and tabs. The side effect of it is that when you hit a sluggish site, then all windows/tabs are unavailable. If you switch to another FF window, you see same image of previous window overlaid on every other FF window. I had suggested to FF people to spawn a separate thread for each tab and let each tab open it's own private socket, so it will not tie up other tabs. It fell on deaf ears! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines