[ale] very slow web browsing in Ubuntu (Dapper) and request for help

[Mark Wright]

Hi Phil,

How long have you been running this installation of Ubuntu?  I am  
wondering if you have had time to collect so many cookies and cache  
entries that you are getting bogged down.  Do you have other browsers  
installed?  Opera is my current favorite on OSX and Ubuntu.  Install  
or boot a new browser and see if that changes anything.

If this is a fresh install, what is the hardware under it and what  
are you comparing it too.  That is, was windows installed on this  
machine and you had much faster browsing or does the windows machine  
you are forced to use at work run faster?

I did tweek some settings one time in Mozilla on a Mandriva  
installation.  I'd have to look up what I did.  I may have found it  
on Ubuntu's help pages but it was sort of like tweeking windows  
registry entries.

My experience as a whole has been that all else being equal, if the  
browser is really slow it is waiting on something.  Maybe java is not  
installed right, maybe dns resolution is not being handled well.  Add  
your isp's DNS or a few public ones to /etc/resolv.conf manually.  I  
remember someone posting some public DNS locations on the Linspire  
browsing thread recently.

Please, no offense meant but If this was a system that I had manually  
compiled the kernel on and screwed the rest together on my own I  
would look at something I may have left out accidentally.  I know you  
compile the kernel to enhance performance but maybe all the bits of  
your browser didn't make it to where they needed to be.  You might  
want to look at doing a vanilla install and see how the browser  
runs.  The kernel won't be precisely optimized for your hardware but  
if the browser works who cares.

Oh well, my honey do list ain't gettin' any shorter.  Good luck.

Mark



On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Philip James Smith wrote:

> Hi Folks:
>
> I'm sort of new to Linux, and have been using Ubuntu for about 8  
> months.
> Web browsing is extremely slow... slower than dial up, although I have
> 386kbps 'broadband' service. I have compiled the Ubuntu kernel, and  
> made
> tweeks to Firefox and my system to disable IPV6 service. I've  
> posted my
> problem at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1835442 and  
> have
> had some welcome advice... however, web browsing is still extremely  
> slow.
>
> I've wondered if slow web browsing a well-kept linux secret!
>
> Is there somebody out there that can help me or steer me into the  
> right
> direction to get my browser to work quickly. I don't want to go  
> back to
> the death star.
>
> Thank you,
> Phil Smith
> Duluth, GA
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