This is for the people who are having slow browsing with Firefox on Karmic Koala – Ubuntu 9.10.
Firefox is one of the best browsers out there, so when it acts a bit strange. It’s users notice almost immediately.
With the Karmic Koala release, Ubuntu 9.10, users have noticed such a situation. There is a fix. Open firefox. Go to the address bar and enter “about:config.” A page will come up asking you to confirm. Press the “Enter” key.
In the second stage, enter “ipv6″ in the search/filter bar. Then, look for the line with “network.dns.disableIPv6″ and double click it so that the “Value” column reads “true.”
Now finally, restart Firefox and all should be back to full speed browsing.
Please enjoy your Koala!
November 14th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Hi. Installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
Firefox was slow and discovered this was related to slow lookup of IPv6 settings.
Setting up openDNS crashed my local SAMBA windows network, but found out this was related
to winbind of local names. This i how i resolved it:
- Local DNS lookup first
> sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
- Setup Open DNS server info
*System->Preferences->Network Connections->Wired->Edit eth0->IPv4 Settings->Automatic (DHCP) addresses only-> DNS Servers = 127.0.0.1, 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Tjeck your settings:
> less /etc/resolv.conf
> dig google.com (look for: ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
Setup SAMBA sharing with windows computers on LAN, so openDNS dont screw up network sharing.
It is something with windows uses winbind and network look up openDNS first. Well set:
> sudo gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf
Insert “wins” in line:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 —-TO—-
hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Tjeck your settings:
> less /etc/resolv.conf
And browse your local network