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After a bit of Googling I found a solution to my slow firefox problem with Ubuntu; though I still don't know exactly what the cause is. The general consensus seems to be that Firefox doesn't handle IPV6 well - in my case it seemed that the name lookup was timing out after about 20 seconds (ie. looking in IPV6 space?). There are a couple of solutions :
1. disable IPV6 in Firefox. Type about:config in the address bar, filter on "IPv6" and set disableIPv6 to true. Restart Firefox.
2. create a file called "bad_list"* in "/etc/modprobe.d/" with the single line "alias net-pf-10 off". Reboot.
The second option will obviously effect all applications - ie. the IPV6 problem is likely to exist in Thunderbird as well.
Anyone know why I have to do this ?
[* the default Ubuntu install doesn't have a root password so you'll need to do "sudo passwd" - unless your happy doing everything with sudo]
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