My first guess is a DNS issue are they both using the same DNS server as
their first choice?  6 to 8 sec smells like a timeout on the first lookup.

Just a SWAG that has bit me before.

Joe

On 09/13/2013 11:46 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation.  SL is 64 bit, XP is
> 32 bit.  I have Firefox and Konqueror browsers on SL; Firefox, IE, and
> Google Chrome on XP.  For all browser choices I notice that when my
> browser home page loads (Google.com for all cases), the XP load times
> are very quick (< 1 sec), but painfully slow for SL (6-8 secs).  I
> recently upgraded SL from 5.5 to 6.4, but I had the same symptoms before
> the change.
>
> Here are some data points:
>
> 1.  Firefox: 17.0.8 on SL, 23.0.1 on XP
> 2.  Temporarily disabling SELinux made no difference
> 3.  Temporarily disabling all plugins on SL Firefox made no difference.
> 4.  After the SL home page loads switching to other URL's is noticeably
> slower than with XP.
>
> Is this some kind of authentication hangup?  I have looked at the
> various logs, but can't see anything.  But I am not an expert in this
> area, so maybe I don't know what to look for.
>
> Any insights or suggestions?
>
>
> T. Rosmond