Firefox performance sucks!

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> 
> Okay, I've discovered that the first load is consistently bad.  By this
> I mean, when I start firefox, the first load that happens as part of
> this.  (I also suspect that if I leave firefox for a while (subjective)
> that they first load when I resume using it is also bad.
> 
> As an example, it too 2.5 minutes (yes, you read the right) to
> completely load the front page of www.ebay.com.au (which I have made my
> home page).
> 

What kind of hardware and how much ram do you have. On my machine (and
I'm in the US) that page loaded in < 10 seconds. My machine is a 1.7Ghz
Pentium M and I have 2GB of RAM.

> As a comparison, Mozilla in VMWare loads www.ebay.com.au consistently in
> less than 5 seconds.
> 
> And it's the same for other pages.  For example, I've typed the last
> three paragraphs in the time it's taken to actually change the page from
> www.ebay.com.au to www.slashdot.org.  In fact, it still hasn't happened.
> 

slashdot.org loads in 4 seconds here.

> Ah, there it goes.  Once it starts loading the page, then it usually
> loads very quickly.
> 
> So what else can I test?

It sounds like you may have a DNS resolution problem. Might want to make
sure the DNS server you are using is the best you can. I actually have a
caching DNS server on my network, but even my ISPs is not that slow.

Kevin

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