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> Seems to be the case going the other way too - I tried cnn.com (as I'm > pretty sure I've never visited it and that it would be full of all sorts of > rubbish so easy to time) - opened in Chrome first, then FF (having resolved > the DNS with Chrome); both took about 9 seconds (and FF has Flashblock > installed, without which it would have taken longer). So there's not much > in it, but it is noticeable. Its worth checking what the page has on it - a lot of pages have adverts from all over the place so lots of fresh DNS resolutions. CNN seems to only have couple and refreshing doesn't seem to be much faster than a fresh load ( if you'll pardon the simile) from CNN. Mind you I'm not sure how you make a browser clear out its DNS cache if it has one... > Jason > PS Pardon my ignorance, but what's 'lots'? A few hundred here and there IE8's looking good tho: No longer standards compliant and http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/03/ie8-resource-hog send me a copy to /dev/null Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html