firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[Steve]

On 12/18/05, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I assume you mean the "disable IPv6" thing... I'd like to see that as
> > the DEFAULT for Firefox! It took me a while to figure this thing out a
> > while ago. This is very important specifically for users on dial-up!
>
> this was rejected by the Ubnutu developpers a while back:
>  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7230
>  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2381
>
> --
> Daniel Robitaille

Thanks for the info. It doesn't bother me now, but for people new to
linux who want to try ubuntu (on dialup especially) it could be an
initial turnoff.