Re: Poll: Firefox 3 Beta slower than Firefox 2?

In article <110220080718572377%rag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Mr. Strat" <rag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <dsaur-F7052B.06325111022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Drew D. Saur <dsaur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > I have been disappointed with the relative performance of Firefox 3
beta 
> > on the Mac, so I am running a poll on The Mac Orchard that asks the 
> > question:
> > 
> > "Despite all of the hoopla stating otherwise, Firefox 3 beta for seems

> > to be a big step backward in rendering performance when compared to 
> > Firefox 2, which could be a bad thing for the Mac. What has your 
> > experience been?"
> 
> That's a great idea - compare a beta product to one that already
> ****pping.

Upon further experimentation, I found relief by going to about:config 
and changing "network.dns.disableIPv6" to "true".

It seems that IPv6 DNS lookups are what is slowing Firefox 3 down!

Now Firefox 3 is much faster. Maybe even faster than Firefox 2...

Drew

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