firefox slow/hang load images and yahoo mail

[Michael Johnson]

benchmark wrote:
> Basic info:
>  System 5.3
>  portupdate last night
>  build firefox 1.0.3
>  build linuxwrapper, flashplugins, etc.
> 
> A few problems I noticed:
> a) firefox is very slow loading any site with images. For example,
> loading www.nyt.com, the text content comes up very quickly, but then
> it takes forever to load the images.

you sure it's not your connection? The page loads fully in about 3sec 
for me.
> 
> My question: is this a problem with my graphics or it's firefox? it
> seemed to me to be a problem with firefox.
> 
> b) when i try to login in my mail account at yahoo, it just hangs. 
> I checked with my windows xp's firefox loading at the sametime, there
> were no problems. So it's no the problem with the network connection
> or the website itself.
> 
> Is there anything (like plugins, or libraries, etc) that I need to tweak?
> 
> thanks.
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