Slower Firefox page loading on Ubuntu v. Windows

[Robbo]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 19:12 -0400, Steve Zatz wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the comments and suggestions.  Disabling ipv6
> in Firefox did it for me.  I did not have to change anything
> in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases or change anything in /etc/resolv.conf.
> Some of the posts that were pointed out in this thread suggested that
> you needed to do more than just change the Firefox settings but that's
> all that was necessary for me.

You might want to install the extension Fasterfox, has some nice
features including prefetching which downloads links in the background
whilst you browse along...