firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[Giorgos]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:03 -0700, mjewell wrote:
> > >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.   
> > >
> > >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.
> > > 
> 
> Is there a workaround for Ubuntu? --- My distro did not load any other
> browser.  I'm nervous to try upgrading to 1.5 because the distro did not
> upgrade automatically.
> 
> This problem is so bad that my browser is basically useless at work.
> Everything else is great, and I don't want to have to go back to XP Pro
> over something so small.  
> 
> 

Try installing some other browser, opera for example.