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For some reason Google Chrome is slow when I'm working against localhost. I had the same problem in Firefox 3.5 but I changed some IPv6 setting in about:config which fixed the issue. I think the same problem occurs in Google Chrome, but I can't find out how to fix it.

Any ideas?

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Just an idea : do you have a line that looks like this :

::1 localhost

in your hosts (it should be somewhere like C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, if I remember correctly) file ?

If yes, comment that line by adding a # at the beginning.

This way, the only line that's about localhost should be

127.0.0.1    localhost

which is IPv4.

It might help, if your problem is really caused by IPv6.

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Thanks a million! – blahblah Sep 19 '09 at 15:55
You're welcome :-) Was just a wild guess, but nice to seen it worked ! (might be useful one day on another, actually ! ) – Pascal MARTIN Sep 19 '09 at 15:56
@blahblah - You should mark Pascal's answer as "accepted". @Pascal - thanks so much for this fix, this was really slowing me down as I was testing sites locally in Chrome. – Herb Caudill Sep 28 '09 at 12:49
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This makes a huge difference. Both lines were commented out for me in Windows 7, so I uncommented the IPv4 line and everything works great now. – Ben Mills Feb 1 '10 at 16:27
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I've been using this fix up until Chrome 8, but now that Chrome 9 has been released, it seems to be slow again. Has anyone found a fix for the current version? – Douglas Feb 21 '11 at 10:45
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