"Looking Up/Contacting" Slow when switching between webpages.

[Sebby]

I am!

[Inactive]

Me as well.. 

[Rik]

Moi aussi. (In my best Miss Piggy voice ).

[JB]

I also found this http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-firefox-hacks-to-boost-performance/

Steve and all,

Just a small point. In the article that your link points to, the author uses a capital 'N' (Network) in his example for the network.dnsCacheExpiration entry. The first letter needs to be lower case or it won't work and will disappear from about:config after restarting Firefox.

Hope this helps.

JB.

[Rik]

How about the other uppercase letters, JB, ie C & E?

[Sebby]

So it did, JB, thanks.

Rik, the other capitals are fine.

[Rik]

Thanks, Sebby. 

[JB]

Pretty sure they are OK Rik.

If you take a look through the entries in about:config that were generated by Firefox itself, quite a few of them have capital letters throughout the string but none as the first letter.

JB.

[Rik]

Thanks, JB.

[net91]

Quick show of hands please - how many people experiencing the problem are using Firefox?

I am using Firefox.

[Rik]

Thanks.

[madasahatter]

I am using Firefox.

Me too

[Rik]

All the best people do, Mad.

[madasahatter]

All the best people do, Mad.

and hoobs 

[Steve]

Thanks JB

Found a couple of other possibly useful items.

A firefox dns cache enabler/disabler addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5914

and this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_any_website

I note xp cache's unsuccessful lookup attempts until the cache expires in 5 mins.

[Simon]

I'm using SeaMonkey, and can't say I've noticed any such problems. 

[Sebby]

Thanks JB

Found a couple of other possibly useful items.

A firefox dns cache enabler/disabler addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5914

and this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_any_website

I note xp cache's unsuccessful lookup attempts until the cache expires in 5 mins.

I wonder if there's a way to disable it through about:config. The add-on doesn't support Firefox 3 RC2.

[Sebby]

I've just found out how to do this. You need to create the entries per the link posted earlier, but set the value to 0. I've made the changes and I'll see how I get on.

[alan]

I'm also a FF user V2.0.0.14

[Sebby]

It might be worth trying the above mod(s), in that case, Alan. After all, they can easily be undone.

[alan]

I'm on the case thanks Sebby..

[Sebby]

No problem, though credit goes to JB (6jb) for posting this originally.

[alan]

Thanks All.. Have made the above moves, shall see how I go.. One other quickie, do I leave the OpenDNS or Idnet DNS numbers or revert it back to auto..
I'm a bit confused now, I've lost the plot somewhere.
.

[Rik]

Revert to auto, Alan, if the problem is gone, it wasn't the IDNet DNS servers. If it continues, then try OpenDNS again.

[JB]

No problem, though credit goes to JB (6jb) for posting this originally.

Can't take the credit for that Sebby. It was stevethegas who found the page with the info on it.

Cheers.

JB.