firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[Beast2k]

mjewell wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 00:56 +0200, Giorgos wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 15:42 -0700, mjewell wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 22:23 +0200, Giorgos wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:30 -0700, mjewell wrote:
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>>>>>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.   
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>>>>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?
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>>>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.     
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>>Other browsers work ok? It sounds very weird. Maybe it's a network
>>problem? Your internet is working fine otherwise?
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>Yes, its weird.  Konqueror worked okay under Mandriva linux, and Firefox
>works fine from the Windows XP Pro partition --- same machine.  Email is
>fine.  Pinging the sites from a terminal is fine.   
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>I have the same trouble as far as I can tell it's a Firefox bug because
>others also have the same trouble in ms windows with firefox. I have seen it with many distros and like you all my other browsers and my network and internet connections are just fine. I noticed the "bug" in the last 2 or 3 versions of firefox however it seems worse (imo) in 1.0.7 Perhaps there is a hack or fix but I'm still looking, I'll post when/if I find one of course.
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