firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[mjewell]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 22:23 +0200, Giorgos wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:30 -0700, mjewell wrote:
> > Apologies if this topic has been covered, but Firefox is displaying
> > "operation timed out" messages instead of loading the Ubuntu wiki and
> > forum --- along with Google and many other pages.   
> 
> Does it do that with all pages? Are you sure you haven't changed any of
> its settings (proxies etc?) Maybe you do need to set up a proxy?
> 
> 
> 
No settings were changed, and Firefox (1.07) is loading all pages slowly
to the point of timing out before the page can be loaded.