[CS-FSLUG] Mozilla stupidity

[Ed Hurst]

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
(?).

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