I have the exact same problem. Firefox had timeouts and extremely long
hangs loading pages. I did not test other GUI apps. However, I could
use the terminal to run updates (apt-get).
By chance, I found this behavior was linked to wireless security. Once
I removed all my wireless security, web browsing worked normally. I
tried using both WEP 128 bit encryption, and WPA2. I had the same issue
both times, pages (namely ubuntu.com) would not load or would hang
somewhere along the way.
PERHAPS THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR MIGHT KNOW A BETTER PACKAGE HINT, AS I AM NOT TECH
SAVVY ENOUGH TO
SUGGEST THE CORRECT ONE.
Excerpt from my lspci -vnn output:
09:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg
NIC [168c:001a] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7094]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22
Memory at c0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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ath5k driver (AR2413): dropped packets, high latency
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565892
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