Browser speed issue

[Colin Law]

On 5 June 2010 18:47,  <jon at jcosby.com> wrote:
> Quoting "Dick Dowdell" <dick.dowdell at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using a Sony VAIO W series netbook dual booting Lucid and Win 7 Pro.  I
>> use Firefox and Chrome on both installations.  Browser response is near
>> instantaneous on Win 7 but mush slower on Ubuntu.  It's not a problem with
>> connection speed.  It seems that on Ubuntu the browsers spend most of their
>> time doing DNS lookups, while on Win 7, rrecent DNS responses are cached.
>> Does anyone know what's going on?
>>
>
> Do you have IPv6 enabled? This can slow things down considerably. In
> Firefox, you can disable this by going to the about:config page and
> setting 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true.
>

Dick, did you try this on FF? It can make a huge difference.

Colin