Browser slowness [SOLVED with a workaround]

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2608

Thanks Hypnos,

For now, I just disabled ipv6 support in my USE flags, and did an emerge -avuDN system && emerge -avuDN world. Everything seems to be running perfectly now.

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huckabuck · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

I am experiencing alot of slowness also with firefox-2.0.0.17 compiled. When you say you say you disabled ipv6 use flag, did you set USE to -ipv6 , or just remove ipv6 from the make.conf USE variable altogether ? ... after you ran the emerge -avuDN system && emerge -avuDN world, did anything break ? when i run emerge -vpuDN world, 32 packages have to be recompiled. Is it safe to say that ipv6 doesn't need to be compiled as a USE flag at all ? i have the ipv6 modules built in , in my kernel in the networking functionality section, will i need to recompile my kernel also and remove ipv6 ? I have no web servers set up, but i do use transmission for alot of torrenting , and do a fairly large amount of ftping also. In my firefox i only have 2 addons from the firefox site, fireftp and the gnome theme.

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2608

Currently, I don't personally have any need for ipv6 at all. Therefore, it was best for me to just add -ipv6 to my USE flags in /etc/make.conf and do an emerge -av system && emerge -av world. Based on what you posted, it doesn't seem like you really need support for ipv6 either.
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huckabuck · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:27 am Post subject:

Ok changed USE and have -ipv6 now, and removed all ipv6 from the kernel ... and recompiled firefox with moznopango ... and have a much quicker firefox now, thank you for the tips.