Fixing Firefox Slowness On Linux

Read this if you just want to fix it and don't care about my story. (Don't worry, I have thick skin.)

I just did a fresh install of PCLinuxOS 2007 final. I was having some trouble backing things up before installing. So, I figured, "screw it", I'll just install everything from scratch again. I'm new to Linux, so, I need the practice. :-)

The first thing I ran into is that Firefox was so slow that it was unusable. I fixed this last time. But, I totally forgot what it was. Turns out that IPv6 support is turned on by default in Firefox in most Linux distros (and slow as hell).

Here is a link to the article I found to remind me how to fix this. If you don't want to read it, here is how to fix it. Type "about:config" in the Firefox address bar. Hit enter. Type "network.d" in the "filter" input box. Right click the "network.dns.disableIPv6" option and toggle it (you want it to be true). Restart Firefox. It should be much faster now.