any thoughts on why firefox is still nad-grindingly slow?

[Will Woods]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:45 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> I was seeing this problem, but it stopped shortly after changing 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.  My hosts line was like this:
> 
> hosts:      files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> 
> and I changed it to this:
> 
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> Can others try this, reboot, and see if it makes any difference, or am 
> I just confusing a different bug?

That's probably a different bug - check to see if you had nss-mdns.i586
(only) installed on an x86_64 system. See this mail thread for
background info:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-April/msg01471.html

-w