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    BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Does anyone know why this might be?

    EVERYtime I try and load it it takes an age. It's all of their news sites BBC News and BBC Sport.

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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Quote Originally Posted by MedellinManDem View Post
    Does anyone know why this might be?

    EVERYtime I try and load it it takes an age. It's all of their news sites BBC News and BBC Sport.
    Load what? - you have given no URL examples for people to test for themselves.
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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Personally I found that ff3 was slow all the time. The site you give and all the rest load fine here - open a terminal and run

    Code:
    ip a | grep inet6
    If you get an output you could try to disable ipv6, if there is no output it is disabled.

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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Quote Originally Posted by forestpixie View Post
    Personally I found that ff3 was slow all the time. The site you give and all the rest load fine here - open a terminal and run

    Code:
    ip a | grep inet6
    If you get an output you could try to disable ipv6, if there is no output it is disabled.
    Code:
     inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
        inet6 fe80::21c:23ff:fe89:d63f/64 scope link
    I got that output. How do I disable ipv6 and what is ipv6?

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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Loads very well here.

    My Firefox Information

    Last updated: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:19:49 GMT
    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1

    Extensions (enabled: 18, disabled: 1; total: 19)


    Themes (5)
    • Camifox
    • Default [selected]
    • iFox
    • iFox Metal
    • PitchDark


    Plugins
    • Default Plugin
    • Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux
    • DivX® Web Player
    • GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0
    • Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem)
    • iTunes Application Detector
    • QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0
    • Shockwave Flash
    • Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.1
    • VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.22.1)
    • Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)


    MedellinManDem, what is your setup. Ubuntu? Which Firefox? Which addons are you running? Etc.... the more info we get the faster we can help you.

    forestpixie, why disable ipv6? And what is your setup? Seems strange FF should be slow all the time since it really is known to be at least the second fastest browser out there.
    Last edited by peakshysteria; August 8th, 2008 at 10:41 AM.
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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    How do I disable ipv6 and what is ipv6?
    I edit this file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases to get rid

    Code:
    sudo cp  /etc/modprobe.d/aliases  /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.0808
    gksudo gedit  /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
    You don't tell which variant you use - above gksudo command good for ubuntu - kdesu kate for kubuntu or gksudo mousepad for xubuntu.

    Near the top is line which looks like

    alias net-pf-10 ivp6
    change to
    alias net-pf-10 off
    save , close and reboot

    These thread - goes through change and what ipv6 is
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87798
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6

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    Re: BBC Website takes ages to load in FF3.

    Quote Originally Posted by MedellinManDem View Post
    The BBC sites are slower to load than other sites because of how they are coded. They are slow even on a fast cable connection and that startup would be greatly drawn out on slower connections. They need help -- this isn't a FF3 problem.
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