Strange Firefox problem

[Milan]

Christian Csar a écrit :
> So far the only problem with Firefox 3 in hardy, is that it seems to 
> have substantial problems visiting Google, but not other websites I have 
> noticed. This also only happens if I go by URL rather than IP address 
> from ping. What is also strange is that it is intermittent within 
> firefox. Google quite simply is not loading after more than 5 minutes, 
> but going to the 64.233.169.104 gets there nearly instantaneously.
> Konqueror gets to google nearly instantaneously.
>
> I imagine that if this problem affected others that they would have 
> filed some sort of bug report by now, so it may be specific to me.
>
> My only guess is that Firefox has a google ip hard coded somewhere, 
> which does not make too much sense.
> about:config searching for google does not turn up anything that seems 
> too strange.
> Christian
>
>   
IPv6 issue maybe? Just a guess, but a while ago a v6 DNS lookup was
performed and since no response was got, a delay was introduced. It may
be good to investigate in this direction...

Just my two cents