One more thing:  Firefox will display what it's doing in the status line
at the bottom,  I think "looking up google.com"  will be displayed
during the name resolution operation.

Joe

On 09/13/2013 04:36 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote:
> 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