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Firefox (version 12) starts quickly but when I try to link to a website,it takes almost 3 minutes to activate. Please help me.

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My home page is MSN.COM. When the MSN home page opens, it usually scrolls through 7 different windows of news events. This doesn't start until 3 minutes of waiting. Also, if I go into Google and a website under Firefox opens, I can't access anything for 3 minutes. Once the 3 minutes are up, there are no problems.

My home page is MSN.COM. When the MSN home page opens, it usually scrolls through 7 different windows of news events. This doesn't start until 3 minutes of waiting. Also, if I go into Google and a website under Firefox opens, I can't access anything for 3 minutes. Once the 3 minutes are up, there are no problems.

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Have you tried with an alternative browser ?

Have you tried to check your speed/bandwidth ? (do a websearch for speed testers)

What happens if you try only a blank page as the home page, and then navigate to something simple like this forum's home page (/home) which would normally be expected to open fairly quickly

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I am on an IMAC with Firefox version 12. I think your response is for a microsoft browser. Thanks, anyway

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If you are referring to my post about IPv6 then that applies to Mac as well.

You can set the Boolean pref network.dns.disableIPv6 to true on the about:config page to disable IPv6.