[Clug-tech] Firefox performance issues when a firewall is enabled

[Gustin Johnson]

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Shawn Grover wrote:
> Plugins?  I know that Adblock Plus does a query against an external
> server periodically - your firewall rules may be interferring with that.
>  (I just noticed your not about the extensions being disabled.... so...)

Yup they are all disabled.  This was where I looked first.
> 
> DNS - I have seen sporadic problems with DNS that would slow down my
> whole network.  Things like taking 30+ seconds to resolve names for
> things like google analytics.  At the time I was convinced my DNS was
> set up right but later investigation revealed a couple of little
> glitches.  I resolved this by pointing everything on my network to my
> own DNS server - after someone told me I didn't need the "forwarders"
> set up.
> 
But the slowness affects the interface as well.  So clicking on the
tools or bookmarks drop down menus is also sluggish unless there are no
firewall rules, which is just weird.  I have also deleted any and all
"Live Bookmarks", I use a seperate RSS reader (on my blackberry of all
things).

> Some shots in the dark for you.....
> 
Thanks for trying,

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