Mandrake 10.0 Web Browsing

[Simon Felix]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:09 pm, you wrote:
> Louise Chambers wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------snip
> >
> > Try a lighter browser. Firefox, galeon, or epiphany?
>
> Lighter or just different.  He has some sort of DNS problem or local
> firewall/filter problem, because he already stated that ALL web services
> were slow to resolve hosts, FTP and HTTP.
>
> If you have a separate hardware firewall, check that the box (linux box
> or firewall appliance) has the right DNS server info for your ISP?  I
> have at least 4 DNS addresses I can use, but 2 are faster and I use
> those.  If the DNS addresses aren't hard set in the firewall, then is
> the firewall getting the info via DHCP?   You may need to activate
> caching DNS on your firewall to speed up name resolution of commonly
> visited sites.  The info may come down slow if you are getting name
> resolution via broadcast.  Same could be happening inside the local net.
>   Check the IP address of the Mandrake PC.  If you have a 169.x.x.x
> address or anything ending in .255, you are on broadcast.  "ifconfig
> eth0" can give you info about your network connections.  Windows uses
> "ipconfig /all".   Check that if you are setting the static IP of any
> machine in your net that it is not the same as another PC or device.
>
> It may also be something as simple as a loose or partially disconnected
> cable.  I had a home-made cable that had gotten yanked on too hard a
> couple of times and would randomly disconnect.
>
>
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In that regard I would have to say lighter more so than different.  I have not 
used Mozilla 1.6 since the last time I installed Gentoo from a stage one 
tarball and I did not see any performance boost at all even with that setup.   
Although the other browsers I mentioned may use the same rendering engine, 
Mozilla is the bloated big brother IMO.  My Konqueror feels lighter than 
Mozilla when used not only as a web browser but a file manager too.  All in 
all I prefer Firefox.