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hey guys,

I basically need some tips and advice on how to speed up webpage loading on any browser (firefox, opera, chrome, etc).

I basically have been using mandriva for over a year now. I remember back when firefox was less than version 3.0 -- it was blazing fast on any linux distro. But now its slow. Opera and Chrome are not as bad (but firefox / opera / chrome runs much much faster on window OS).

Now I have just finished re-installing mandriva (hdd wiped clean) with the latest build (2010.1 spring edition) and I am seeing similar problem - webpage loading slowly. But when I boot up using any linux live cd / dvd (mandriva, pclinux os, etc) webpage loading seems really fast !

What I've done in the past and now, to compensate for firefox slow response, I click on START PRIVATE BROWSING .. and .. webpage loads much much faster !!! why is this ??

I left all the settings (cache, etc) on default. Is there a tweak that we can do to make it run faster ?

Try this in Forefox

about:config

search for network.dns.disableIPv6

and change from false to true.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dns.disableIPv6

Not sure what to tell you about the other two if that improves anything.

captain furball..

Thank you sooo much !! Yes that made my firefox runs so much faster !!! We should put this on sticky !

Opera is running slow, and I would hate to switch browsers I love opera so much... ATM, I am only running 512mb of ram. Opera will run fast for awhile, then it will slow down to a halt once it takes up too much memory.

I have tried eliminating the memory cache and disabling the history, but those things didn't solve the problem.

Is there a way to limit the amount of memory Opera uses?