Re: [SLUG] Slow Mozilla

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 03:09:30 EDT


On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bob Stia wrote:

> On Friday 09 July 2004 08:47 am, Levi Bard wrote:
> > >Recently developed an annoying problem with Mozilla. It loads
> > > webpages from the internet extremely slowly. I can watch the data
> > > rate download from kinternet. I will get a short burst of data,
> > > then it will be idle for 15 or 20 or 30 seconds and then get
> > > another short burst. This can continue for 15 or 20 minutes until
> > > a page is completely loaded.

> > >This doesn't happen downloading mail or ftp. Although slow, (about
> > > 4 kb/s ) they don't have that "burst" then "stop" problem.
> >
> > Did you try turning on link prefetching (Preferences->Advanced->Cache)?

> > Or it might be your ISP. Does it happen with other browsers?
>
> As to the ISP, I would think that data download would be the same for
> all services, e-mail, ftp, and http. May be wrong though.

They may have special treatment for one service. Easy to do in a router.

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