firefox timing out before pages are loaded

[mjewell]

Thx to Paul and Peter and others who posted this fix.  Here's the final
report:

Firefox 1.07 loaded pages slowly "operation timed out" for no good
reason.  

The same version of Firefox is installed on my home and office machines
both of which use Ubuntu and which previously used Mandriva.  Both
machines also have XP Pro installed on other partitions.  The machines
access the net through different ISPs though.  The Firefox loaded pages
at home like a . . . well, like a Firefox.  The one at the office didn't
load pages at all.

The fix was to type about:config into the address bar which pulled up a
configuration menu.  Then network.dns.disableIPv6 has to be set to
"true" --- and then it works.  

Thank you, thank you, thank you --- I'm using this system at my office
and this problem was a big one for me.  

Best regards from the snowy, rural northwestern US!

mjewell  



On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 00:19 +0000, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> mjewell wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:49 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:42:01 -0700
> >>mjewell <mjewell at openmissoula.org> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>This may or may not solve your problem, but it's worth a try
> >>
> >>Open
> >>
> >>about:config
> >>
> >>in the location field, then in the search field put "ipv6"  (without the
> >>quotes). Change
> >>
> >>network.dns.disableIPv6   to  "true"    and restart firefox (not sure if
> >>the restart is needed, but that can't hurt either ;)
> >>
> >>Some people's ISPs haven't quite got IPv6 right, apparently (according to
> >>what I've heard - please correct me, someone, if I've misunderstood )
> >>
> >>This change has made a dramatic difference for several people to whom I
> >>suggested it on IRC.
> >>
> >>Peter
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Thx, Peter --
> >This sounds promising!  Which directory has the file that need
> >editing?  
> >  
> >
> To follow Peters instructions you can type the about:config where you 
> type the URL/address.
> It also works as he said by File:Open
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
>