On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:47:23PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mayuresh Kathe
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > There's a strange incident that's repeatable on my system (4.2).
> > > >
> > > > Open up Firefox, make it load "www.dilbert.com", then open another
> > tab
> > > > and visit any other website, then do the same for 2~3 more tabs.
> > > >
> > > > The first (dilbert) tab takes a long time to load during which the
> > > > other tabs too show nothing, they get stuck at "Looking up..."
> > > >
> > > > Is it a Firefox problem or something to do with the system?
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > >
> > > > ~Mayuresh
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have seen this on both Windows and OpenBSD. The later firefox
> > > releases (like from 2.0.0.3-2.0.0.5 something) I have seen problems
> > > with having more tabs open.
> > > I used to have a lot of tabs but now I have restricted myself to 3-4
> > > or firefox is not useable.
> >
> > I forgot to mention, my Firefox version is 2.0.0.6
> > Also I've only got a total of 3~4 tabs open while performing the Dilbert
> > test.
> > Taking your cue, I tried an experiment, I opened up 10 tabs, but
> > without the Dilbert site and all of them opened up in parallel.
>
> Seems like an ipv6-dns-resolution problem to me.
>
> My 2c.
If that's the case, setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true in
about:config should do the trick.
-Otto
