Just about driven to pull my hair out with Firefox

[chris]

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 21:28 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> > Then why didn't to you come back and report that in the original
> thread:
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/220005
> 
> Probably because I assumed nobody would read a 4 month old thread in
> which I had already said the problem was solved (though it
> remanifested). My apologies for the oversight and wasting the lists
> time with a double post.
> 
> > Have you tested with other browsers (yes there are others) to see if
> the
> > problem exists in those as well?
> 
> 
> Yes, I am aware that there are other browsers and I've tried a few
> others with the same result (which I said in my previous reply in this
> thread). That's why I'd finally accepted it as an IPv6 issue since it
> was present in multiple browsers and not just in Firefox. 
> 
> 
> > Posting "Firefox simply stalling on random websites" does nothing.
> > Unless you can point someone to a URL that fails, provide details of
> > your FF extensions, tell us what launchpad bugs you've checked and
> > suspect, etc., etc., you'll be better off here:
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/
> > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Other+Firefox+support
> 
> 
> Well, the problem is that Firefox was stalling on *random* sites at
> *random* times so providing a URL to a site would be kind of
> pointless. For example, it stalled on Facebook a few times, then
> loaded it fine. It stalled on GMail a few times with intermittent
> successes between the fails. It stalled on Slashdot. As I think I said
> in my post last night, there wasn't any rhyme or reason to the stalls
> and they were completely random.
> 
> 
> As to checking out Launchpad, I did and I also spent quite a bit of
> time with all of our best friend Google. Everything points to 'it's an
> IPv6 problem' and I took it as such. But implementing the widely
> recommended fix didn't actually fix it and I reached a dead end so I
> came here.  I didn't go to the Mozilla support center which was my
> mistake.  Again, my apologies for offending the list.
> 
> 
> Thank you all for your time. It's appreciated.  Now. I'll go do more
> research and hopefully find a solution. If not, well, that could mean
> the end of Ubuntu for me since NO browser seems to work. Shame too as
> I really love the OS.
> 
> 
> Anthony

I solved the issue by using icecat, and purging firefox.

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Just my 2c's worth
Cheers the kiwi