Firefox display of LinkedIn slow on Fedora 10

[Michael Eager]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

>> One interesting aspect is that some of the LinkedIn pages come up fast,
>> others hang.  Firefox thinks it's waiting for www.linkedin.com.  I could
>> run a sniffer to see if it really is accessing the IP address with the
>> reduced MTU.
>>
> Now that you have done all that detective work, I wonder if MSS is the 
> problem after all. I just opened linkedin.com from this VM (my default 
> desktop) and it worked perfectly. So now I have to bring up the old 
> original list entry you made and see what you are doing differently from 
> what I'm doing, (which works).
> 
> I was able to bring up profiles, etc, so I assume it was working right.

The LinkedIn home page comes up quickly.  Trying to follow links
to discussions or to read a discussion thread hangs.

Except for seeing the same behavior on Konqueror and Firefox, I would
not have thought it was a network issue.

-- 
Michael Eager	 eager at eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077