[CS-FSLUG] Mozilla stupidity
Ed Hurst
ehurst at asisaid.com
Wed Oct 6 10:46:39 CDT 2004
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:38:47 -0500
Mark Dalton <mwd at cray.com> wrote:
> Ed Hurst wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know how I can prevent Mozilla making dns queries before
> >it opens a window? When I start it, the stupid thing hangs for 90
> >seconds or longer trying to resovle some queries that make no sense,
> >simply because I have a dnscache running. Seems to me an Internet app
> >has no business making queries before it's running.
> >
> My first guess would be.. your home page.. since I don't see this
> behavior. I would make sure you have a blank home page then, versus it
> trying to access mozilla.org or other sites.
Thank you for your suggestion. Did that years ago, because I hate
homepages. Further, from my primitive understanding of tcpdump, it's
trying to access localhost on oddball ports that are closed by firewall
(?).
--
Ed Hurst
-----------
A Bible Site -- http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/
Linux & Unix Help -- http://ed.asisaid.com/
Blog -- http://ed.asisaid.com/blog/
More information about the Christiansource
mailing list