Browser speed issue

[Dick Dowdell]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Johnneylee Rollins <
johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 06/05/2010 11:28 AM, Dick Dowdell wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm using a Sony VAIO W series netbook dual booting Lucid and Win 7
> >> Pro.  I use Firefox and Chrome on both installations.  Browser
> >> response is near instantaneous on Win 7 but mush slower on Ubuntu.
> >> It's not a problem with connection speed.  It seems that on Ubuntu the
> >> browsers spend most of their time doing DNS lookups, while on Win 7,
> >> rrecent DNS responses are cached.  Does anyone know what's going on?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dick Dowdell
> >     I have no netbook or win7. I can say however that Firefox is fast
> > enough on my computer which has Ubuntu 10.04 on it.
> Karl, you have no related experience to the problem and your opinion
> doesn't help the issue at all. His issue is related to caching, not a
> relative opinion of fast. It might be something else, but the "It
> works for me" attitude isn't helping.
>
> Dick, try and make sure in chromium that "enable browser pre-fetching
> "is enabled. It might be worded differently, it's in the under the
> hood tab. I'll poke around for more ideas.
>
> ~SpaceGhost
>
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Thanks!
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