i'm not really sure what exactly this is, but i know it's something:

when i'm using firefox on freebsd 5.2.1, i can access websites really quickly. however, after using it for a little while, firefox is extremely slow and basically doesn't load any new pages i click on. i can easily fix this by closing firefox and reopening it - then i get pages that load really fast again (but this is really annoying to do all the time).

i know this is a problem specific to firefox on freebsd, and nothing to do with my internet connection because: i've never had this problem before except on firefox on freebsd - i've used firefox on linux and windows on the same internet connection and it was fine. also, using other browsers on freebsd doesn't give me the same problem.

the only thing remotely suspicious, if at all, is that i compiled and installed firefox from ports.

thanks in advance.

It seems to hang while resolving the host? Try removing IPV6 support from the kernel.


PS: This is kind of an old workaround, I don't know whether the actual bug has been resolved yet.

There was a patch in OpenBSD to fix that issue, although I don't know about FreeBSD. It sounds like it could be a memory leak problem to me. Perhaps there is not enough physical RAM available and the longer it runs the more it swaps out?

i'll try removing IPv6. i think there's plenty of physical RAM, but i'll see what a kernel recompile will do.

Before you go ripping the kernel apart and cause all kinds of other problems, check the patches for Firebird in it's ports directory. I'm pretty sure the IPv6 resolver problem has been fixed via a patch. In any case, the IPv6 problem didn't cause the issue you're talking about. The Firefox IPv6 problem was that every site took 20 seconds to resolve because it was expecting an IPv6 DNS entry. There was no variant of that behavior over time.

ok, ill check that out.