-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Goesele wrote: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > >>> having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the >>> browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or >>> even makes the browsers hang: >> Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. > > Very fast :-) > >> This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. > > No, it's definitely Mozilla related. > >> Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? > > Konqueror opens (visibly) my home directory for saving - that for the > first time takes some time, but for later saving it's much faster > than with Mozilla. Saving itself goes very fast. (Very slow for > Mozilla etc.) > > Thanks! > > Andreas Goesele > Perhaps you can edit the Download Preferances in Gecko-Based w/e to download to a differant directory? Try /tmp or even /home/you/download/. If it has to do with your home directory being very large, this may help.
Also, perhaps an aptitude reinstall of some of the mozilla/gecko libraries will help? It seems that these are common in all packages: libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxi6 libxrender1 zlib1g - -- Please do not use HTML mail for fully-textual messages. Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net Thinkpad 600: Debian Sarge Sony VAIO PCV-RS 520: Debian Etch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGH5YmkRdiiE3QqaYRAg66AJ9sddKPBcwWw0BixGyqyTvdVV/URQCcD9EA fwUZlmsnvRMC139wYrAUOc4= =J5xf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
