Is google sabotaging browsers?
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From: notbob on 6 Mar 2010 11:20 I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, hotlinks in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them at least twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible google is subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome browser? nb
From: General Schvantzkoph on 6 Mar 2010 13:46 On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:20:23 +0000, notbob wrote: > I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, hotlinks > in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them at least > twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible google is > subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome browser? > > nb I suspect you are having problems with your DNS server. You could try running your own, BIND and unbound are the common choices. unbound is very fast and it's small. You could also try Google's caching DNS servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, you;ll find that they are a lot faster then your ISP's DNS servers.
From: Loki Harfagr on 6 Mar 2010 13:48 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:20:23 +0000, notbob did cat : > I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, hotlinks > in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them at least > twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible google is > subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome browser? Do you mean you have this problem when you click an URL in a Google search results page? If so you may try and compare some related search with other search engine (or even scroogle.org) and post again if there are huge slowliness differences [or if the slow factor is quite close then you'll have to check you installation and/or settings ,-) ] Or did you mean that since Xrome is out again you have problem in every click?-)
From: David W. Hodgins on 6 Mar 2010 13:54 On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:20:23 -0500, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: > I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, > hotlinks in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them > at least twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible > google is subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome > browser? Most likely it's an ipv6 dns issue. In about:config, try setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. Also, make sure you have httpd running so that sites that get redirected to localhost will get a quick response, saying the item is not found. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
From: Sam on 6 Mar 2010 14:02
notbob writes: > I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, > hotlinks in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them > at least twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible > google is subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome > browser? No, you just need to switch to extra-thick tin foil. |