Re: Default Firefox settings

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On 10/3/07, darrell pfeifer <darrellpf gmail com> wrote:
> I'm using firefox granparadisio.
>
> I was having a terrible time with unbearably slow firefox on some
> hotel networks. All my other network apps were working fine.
>
> It looked like firefox was timing out on dns lookups. Eventually when
> addresses got cached locally on the machine firefox speeded up
> considerably.
>
> In preferences/network/setting, "auto detect proxy settings" was set.
> I changed to "direct connection to internet" and firefox works at a
> decent speed.
>
> darrell


When firefox is slow, it is _really_ slow. Is this acceptable by default?


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