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On Monday 18 December 2006 12:44, Neil Winchurst wrote: > Last May I bought a new computer (in fact had it made up to my spec) > and a digital camera. I have used Linux for years, so I installed > Mandriva2006. I also set up a personal web-site so for the first time I > was using my browser to *write* to a web-site as opposed to simply > looking at them. Of course I had occasionally written to a site, eg > when registering for something, but generally all I had ever done up to > then was browse. > > I soon found a problem. About every third or fourth time I tried to > write to my site the browser would simply sit there with the message > 'Looking up URL ......' If I simply waited it would eventually time > out. The only thing to do was to cancel the upload (and of course lose > everything typed in since the last save) and go off to do something > else. There was no need to close the browser, I could use it as normal > for a while. > > After a few minutes I could return to my blog, photo gallery, whatever > and carry on from where I was earlier. Again I could upload a few times > and then the same problem would appear. I had the site checked, and it > was all OK. Then I set up an account with flickr and had the same > problem. So of course I blamed Mandriva. > > In October I changed over to kubuntu Edgy. Now, I thought, all will be > well, but no the same problem all over again. This is silly, I thought. > Yesterday I had an idea. I don't normally use konqueror as a browser, > but I decided to try it. Wonderful, the problem had disappeared. Today > I added a new entry to my blog which involved at least eight saves, > just to test it. No problem. > > I should mention that I also used the Galeon browser with the same > problem. Only konqueror works. I suspect some kind of memory leak with > the normal browsers,but does anyone out there have any suggestion > please. > > Firefox 2.0 > Galeon 2.0.2 > Konqueror 3.5.5 > KDE 3.5.5 > > TIA > > Neil Winchurst Thats set a few bells ringing and I just checked something - I generally use firefox (1.5) and often it is slow resolving fresh names - I put it down to my ISP. However I've just started to play with NVU and it uses mozilla for showing how the pages look. That resolves pretty fast. Konquerer is fast too. Thats on Suse9.2 I went to test on a w2k machine and firefox on that resolves slowly, IE fast. I went to my other linux box, Mozilla resolves fast firefox slowly!!Suse 10.1 I'm on a 512k broadband, having come down from 2M and I never noticed it before. By fast I mean type new name in the browser and its 'waiting for reply' if not loading and slow is a second or two of looking up. So wassa matter with firefox? 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