Jerry Geis wrote:> I have updated to 5.6 - GREAT job guys...
>
> when I do "host slashdot.org" for example it comes back
immediately.
> when I enter slashdot.org on firefox it says "Looking up
slashdot.org"
> for a LONG time like 15 or 20 seconds
> before continuing.
>
> I have set network.dns.disableIPv6 true.
>
> Any idea why firefox is so slow?
>
> Jerry
>
Apparently directly editing the prefs.js was not good enough. I found
again where about:config on the address line
gets me the settings, and sure enough ipv6 was not disabled. I disabled
it and now its fast again.
Jerry