On 15 May 2005 at 11:11, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 10:35 AM 5/15/05 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >Windows were *glacially* slow to load. As for the possibility that > >these problems might have been remotely based--well, let's just say I > > don't believe in coincidences. I get a new browser, take it for a > >test run to a site I've visited many times before w.o incident, and > >get a traffic jam; that tells me all I need to know. --I then trashed > > firefox, rebooted in OS9, and repeated the same navigation in > >Netscape, w.o the slightest problem. IMO the possibility of the > >observed behavior being coincidental is remote in the extreme. > > Maddening stuff regardless of platform. > > Here on Windows, I used Opera since the first public version, but they > had a bug that interacted badly with LANs, causing Opera to vanish > from the server -- a real problem buying something or working on a > banking site. I was looking for alternatives, and I reluctantly gave > up Opera when I tried Firefox, which had almost no flaws in general > use. > > Almost. There is a bug in a Firefox configuration setting. Putting > "about:config" in the URL field opens the options, and the > "network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains" should be changed to "true".
Er, my copy of Firefox lists that as a string value, not Boolean, and, in fact, has ".doubleclick.net" as its value (I use the Doubleclick opt-out cookie, so I don't know why the hell it's in there, unless it defaults to that). However, a little Googling indicates that others have recommended setting it to TRUE. And this Bugzilla bug seems to explain why it's set up that way: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68796 >From reading there, it appears that Doubleclick is returning non- compliant query results to DNS requests, and so this setting allows that to be overridden. Well, looks like a great way to kill all Doubleclick ads with one setting! Is that why you're recommending changing it? > Buy.com has been fine for me. Some sites load background hit counters > and advertising tracking stuff that hold up page loads if you have > popups suppressed (I do). And my (tech) publisher has required online > billing, using IE-only code. Keeping Flash deactivated until I want it > is nearly impossible, but Flash seems to be invasive anyway. There are any number of reasons a page could load very slowly, none of them having to do with the speed of the local browser. Andrew has really jumped the gun in killing Firefox after only one try. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
