Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts which I hope has an accelerating effect on loading pages (though I"
So you aggressively flaunt conventional wisdom with this practice. What is your secret? I have often thought of doing the same when DNS queries crawl, but it seemed that surely if the answer was so simple, others would have discovered it already ;-) On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:30 AM John Crawley <j...@bunsenlabs.org> wrote: > > On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote: > > On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: > >> On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >>> https://manpages.debian.org/ . > >> > >> Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in > >> Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage it takes a very long time > >> to load, and sometimes drops out. > >> OTOH if I paste the address directly in the address bar it opens > >> immediately. > > I am using firefox-esr (52.7.3) on Jessie and the above link opens > > immediately. > Using firefox-esr in Stretch (52.8.1 btw, also in Jessie now) and just > clicked the above link ( https://manpages.debian.org/ ) in Thunderbird > to get the same spinning "Transferring data from manpages.debian.org" > and the tab still hasn't loaded after several minutes. > > I also right-clicked the link, "copy link location" and pasted it into > another tab's address bar. It appeared as exactly the same URL in the > address bar, but loaded immediately. Likewise if I select the text, > Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V in Firefox. Immediate. > > I've only noticed this with the Debian manpages site though. URLs in > mail messages are usually opened instantly in a new non-focussed tab. > Maybe some addon some of us are using is getting in the way of Mozilla's > handling of link requests? > > (That first tab still hasn't loaded why I've been slowly typing this.) > -- > John >