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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: persistent slow loading in Konqueror
From:       Jim Philips <jimmyc () speedfactory ! net>
Date:       2005-01-25 11:01:53
Message-ID: 200501250601.53318.jimmyc () speedfactory ! net
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Wow, Waldo! That did it! Just tried Slate and it loaded even faster than 
Firefox. Thanks for your help.

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:07 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:37, Boudewijn Gailliaert wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:34, Jim Philips wrote:
> > > I am on KDE 3.4 Beta 1, but this problem has been dogging me the
> > > last several versions of KDE. Some popular Web sites are extremely
> > > slow to load in Konqueror when compared with Firefox. And this
> > > bothers me, because I would much prefer to use Konqueror. Some of
> > > the offending sites are:
> > >
> > > http://www.washingtonpost.com
> > > http://www.ajc.com
> > >
> > > Earlier, Slate (slate.msn.com) was quick to load. Now they have
> > > been bought out by The Washington Post and they are also painfully
> > > slow. What do I mean by slow? Some articles can take MINUTES to
> > > load. I can click on the link, read a few things in Knode and come
> > > back to find that the page still hasn't loaded. The same pages load
> > > in seconds using Firefox. I have a DSL connection and most
> > > downloads come in at 130 to 150K per second, so my connection is
> > > not generally slow. Clearly some sites out there are doing
> > > something Konqueror does not like. Is there any way to analyze
> > > further what may be going on?
>
> Typical case of DNS-servers with broken IPV6 support. Add
>  export KDE_NO_IPV6=true
> to /etc/profile or so.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
 
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