Firefox Loses DNS in F10

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 1 21:31:54 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:11 -0800, gary artim wrote:
>   
>> seems there is a ipv6 slowdown with comcast's dns servers. if you use
>> firefox
>> you can stop ipv6 lookups by opening a tab in firefox and typing:
>>
>> about:config
>>
>> type:
>> network.dns.disableIPv6;false
>> set it to true and your dns lookups will take off.
>>     
>
> Interestingly, my FF has this set to True already, and I'm sure I never
> touched it.
>
> poc
>
>   
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  Patrick O'Callaghan

That change in Firefox about:config did it.   I have pulling my brains 
out since last Tue. over that frustration.

Poc, I don't think we can trust you to get into ABOUT:CONFIG

THANK YOU.




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