I to can confirm this. My comp with 1gig of ram was taking firefox 10+ seconds to load everytime. By using this firefox opens instantly and without all the disk thrashing
-- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
