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2005-07-24
I was just trying to figure this problem out as well. On BeOS Firefox would delay after loading any page other than the home page ( which I could navigate FULLY ) for up to a couple minutes.
The problem turned out to be that my system was setting my local router as the DNS, whereas I could set it further out in my extended network or use my ISPs DNS directly. This fixed the problem quickly.
Thing was, I could use almost all other networking tools without glitches, but noticed problems with two different IRC apps.
The exact cause of this, I cannot discern. It may have to do with how a network request is made, which would make sense why the platform mattered ( happened on BeOS & Haiku, but not Ubuntu, Vista, or MacOS X ).
Oh well, check your DNS - and set it manually ( I use the fastest OpenDNS servers I can find, bypassing all local DNS servers ( but not the DNS cache ) ).
--The loon