Driven to pull my hair out with Firefox

[Nils Kassube]

Xurde Sierra wrote:
> I was having with Firefox simply stalling on random websites. In most
> cases, a simple page refresh takes care of the problem but not
> always. I read a message that said it might be related to IPv6 and
> that I should disable it in Firefox's config. I did and there is
> virtually no change at all.  At first, it seemed like there might
> have been a change but, on a second examination, there wasn't.

Indeed, some people have problems with firefox using IPv6 if they have a
network connection with only IPv4. But you would see similar symptoms if
you have several default routes where only one is working. That would
likely be a misconfiguration in a manual network setup, but a bug in the
networkmanager could cause it as well. In a terminal type the command

route -n

which should give an output similar to this one:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0

If you have two entries like the last line which start with 0.0.0.0 it
is probably the reason for your trouble.


Nils