[clug] Very slow loading of web pages in Firefox on Ubuntu 11.04

[jhock]

On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 10:27 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Is this just now? 

No. I has happened since I upgraded Firefox about a week or two ago.

John

> I noticed this morning that .w3.org seems to have an issue
> which makes many pages hang for a while before finishing loading.
> 
> Banning the site (in my adblock) resolved the issue.
> 
> cheers
> 
> On 09/03/11 10:09, jhock wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have Firefox 6.0 Ubuntu for canonical 1.0 on Ubuntu 11.04 gnome
> > installation.  The loading of web pages is very slow even though the
> > wireless connections indicates a 48 Mb/s connection speed.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why loading the web pages would be slow? Where
> > should I look in Firefox or Ubuntu settings to increase the speed?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> 
> -- 
> Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)