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Faster Firefox
Sometimes when installing Ubuntu, Firefox doesn't work so well. It actually has a bit of some problems...like going really slow. Sometimes it can work really fast and then it slows down later. You can try using the Fasterfox plugin, but even then that doesn't always help. I know for myself it didn't. There is a script I ran into last fall that seems to fix the problem. It really made my life happier. So instead of a website loading in 9 seconds it only took 2.
Anyway, I will now show you what you need to do, and then explain why it works the way that it does.
First what you want to do is go to your terminal, because we are going to be using the command line to open up a file. So what you need to do is copy and paste this line into your terminal:
At the top of this file you should see something like this:
# network protocols ##########################################################
alias net-pf-1 unix
alias net-pf-2 ipv4
alias net-pf-3 ax25
alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias net-pf-5 appletalk
alias net-pf-6 netrom
alias net-pf-7 bridge
alias net-pf-8 atm
alias net-pf-9 x25
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
alias net-pf-11 rose
alias net-pf-12 decnet
Look for the line that says alias net-pf-10 ipv6. What you want to do is replace the "ipv6" with "off". This way your line should look like this:
From there just simply save the file. After that your Firefox should be much faster. It seems the reason why this makes it speed up is because what happens is Ubuntu seems to try things in the IPv6 protocol as compared to the IPv4 protocol which most things are still running on, then it tries Ipv4. So what happens is, it takes extra seconds longer. So with this you turn off IPv6, and it causes things to go faster. If for some odd reason you need to turn the IPv6 back on, then just replace the "off" with "ipv6". I hope this helps everyone out there. I know this was something that made my life easier after I learned it.
