I have a DSL connection however,firefox loads all my wbe sites very slow and it sometimes act very sluggish too

Do other browsers load slow? How did you configure it?

If it is just Firefox, maybe look at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=258042

Other browers in fedora apper to be slow too except for one which is like Konquer or something like that. It does load pages a litte faster then all

I may be new to Linux but I have had lots of trouble with Firefox because Microsoft has been finding ways to penetrate Firefox and have it share your computer events.

Microsoft can and will even deny you use of your Firefox browser to force you to use their Internet Explorer.

Firefox's recent many issues coming one after another are Firefox's combating Microsoft's penetration.

If your Firefox browser appears slow I'll bet it has been penetrated.

or it can be your computer speed...Like my main computer is a 2.8ghz celeron flys...but on my fedora computer it is a amd 800mhz

I just got my Linux system up and running and am very surprised at how slowly Firefox and Konqueror load webpages. The Linux system has a 1.6 Ghz processor. I started loading a page, switched my monitor to my 3 Ghz machine, loaded the web page and could have read a few articles before the Linux system was finished. I hope there's some networking configuration parameters that I don't have set correctly because this is painful.

Larry

Folks, almost always when Linux users report very slow loading of pages after initial install of the system, it is the DNS settings.
This is especially true if you find that though your pages load very slowly, downloading files is fast.
Go to the control center (KDE) or anything similar on you distribution, and go to the internet settings.
Find the DNS settings and read what it says.
It should just give the DNS address(s) of your ISP. (If you don't know what these are, ask them...)
The problem is that in some cases and for as yet unclear reasons, the system dynamically allocates the First DNS address to YOUR MODEM. Then, only the Second DNS is given the address of your ISP.
This makes the loading very slow. (The system first tries the default DNS address (your modem!) and only when it gives up moves to the second DNS)
Delete the address of your modem from the first DNS and enter your ISP address instead.
This should do the job.

Downloading of files is indeed fast. I was not able to find a reference to DNS addresses within the control center for KDE. However, once I defined the various addresses within the configuration files, the lookup speed of web pages seems to have greatly improved. It might have taken a reboot or restart of networking related daemons or services to get everything to working correctly. Thank you for your inputs.