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Slow dns lookup in any browser

For example in a Firefox when I'm opening any website that I didn't visit for last 3-5 minutes it takes like 10 seconds to load the websites. In the upper FireFox tab I see this for ten or more ...
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DNS resolution issue on lan

I have a domain pointing to my home network. Router and net connection was upgraded recently. keeping the same fix IP address as it's the same provider. So no changes on the IP association with the ...
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Firefox not requesting scripts from domains hosted at 127.0.0.1

I have 127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com in my hosts file and a script listening (and dummy-serving) on port 80. When I load http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js directly, ...
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Windows 7 Internet Only Works In IE (Not proxy, or Windows updates)

A friend of mine turned on their computer today and Firefox did not open any webpages they tried to navigate too (namely mail.google.com). Anyway, they called me up since I do tech support and this ...
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Why did clearing my dns cache make my browsers work?

I had been having an issue with my internet the past few weeks that had been driving me crazy. I bought a new computer and while applications like skype and spotify could connect to the net, my ...
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Subdomain redirects to main domain

I'm currently working on a site which uses a subdomain. The subdomain works fine for everybody, every device and every browser I've ever tried, except for Firefox on my computer. My computer is a dual ...
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How to make Firefox use TCP for DNS

I want to use TCP for DNS, to bypass my ISP's slow and broken DNS servers. I'm not using (and don't want to use) a proxy. Note: I want to use DNS over TCP because if I use it over udp, no matter what ...
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679 views

Force the web browser to resolve DNS locally

I was wondering if I can do the DNS resolving locally on my computer instead of doing it at the proxy server. In other words, can I get my web browser to respect my hosts file or something like that? ...
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site loads in Ubuntu but not in any browser in XP

I'm volunteering for an organization which uses shiftboard.com to schedule shifts. I have a dual-boot setup with WinXP and Ubuntu on my laptop. When I'm in XP, shiftboard.com (or any variations of ...
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Connection to website interrupted/reset. Why?

When navigating to some websites (like victorsosea.com, citibank.co.in etc.) on Google Chrome, I get a message that the 'connection to www.site.com was interrupted'. If I try on Firefox, it says 'The ...
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Firefox “Browse by Name” not functioning

I'm trying to enable Firefox's "Browse by Name" feature, which lets you type a random string into the location bar and automatically have it searched using the search provider of your choice. This is ...
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Why are all google website suddenly giving untrusted certificate warnings in my Firefox v10?

Today, I am suddenly getting the untrusted website error for all Google websites, but not for any other. Internet Explorer gives no such error. Reboot of this Windows 7 computer does not help. Is ...
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How do I get Firefox to reflect a changed IP address?

In Firefox (7.0.1) some pages are not updating. Example: The IP needs to be changed frequently for some testing, and going to a site like whatismyip.com will shows the old ip (the one that was first ...
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3answers
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How to disable Comcast mistyped address page?

I upgraded my Firefox to v7 (I am on Ubuntu if this matters). Before, I could type in the address bar "ebay" or "gmail" for example, and it would take me to those sites. After I upgraded, it redirects ...
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1answer
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Strange issue with HTTPS URLs in Firefox 5

I have a very annoying problem with Firefox 5 (Windows): whenever I open a new tab and enter an HTTPS URL (like Twitter, Google Mail, ...), the page does not load and after a while I get the standard ...
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How to check whether DNS is working through a browser?

How can I check through my browser whether my DNS is working or not? The context is that my ISP's DNS servers sometimes go down for a few minutes. So sometimes net connectivity problems are due to DNS ...
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1answer
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can't override name resolution for firefox on Ubuntu

I need to override the name resolution for a given domain name for testing purposes in my browser (Firefox) on Ubuntu, so that when I write "www.agivendomain.org", it will point to a given IP that I ...
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Is there an extension or option in Firefox for getting the IP of a host and then visiting the IP instead of the host?

Let's suppose you don't have access to www.site.com, but if you open the IP of the site in Firefox instead of the host name, you can access without problems. Is there an extension or something in ...
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3answers
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Is it possible to make local DNS cache to make browsing faster?

I've noticed that significant amount of time is spent on initial domain DNS resolve and it works much faster after that. But hey.. 90% of websites have the same IP for many months! Is it possible to ...
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Override DNS in Firefox

I'm looking for a way to override DNS entries in Firefox, for development/testing purposes. I know the normal way to do this is via the hosts file, but I cannot edit it since I don't have admin access ...
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How to secure Firefox traffic (+DNS) through SOCKS proxy under Ubuntu 10.04?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, and starting a SOCKS proxy with 'ssh -D', and setting Ubuntu to use it with "System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy". Firefox uses the proxy, and the proxy's IP appears when I ...
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How to do DNS through a proxy in Firefox?

I am using Firefox 3.5.7 with FoxyProxy. I have an ssh tunnel forwarding 8080 through to an HTTP proxy server on the other end. With FoxyProxy, I send work traffic direct but everything else goes ...
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Does Chrome use a different DNS server from Firefox and IE which use the OS default?

Is the common set up for Chrome that it will use a different DNS server, while Firefox and IE will use the OS networking default? My Chrome (including one on virtual PC) will sometimes show ...
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Use custom, local domain for virtual machine in Firefox

I have set up my Windows development system with VMWare Workstation to host a Linux server on which I edit test sites. I have assigned the domain "vm" to that virtual machine's IP address, so that ...
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How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?

How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?
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Italian DNS: How to avoid restarting firefox

I'm using Firefox 3.5 on OSX. When I try to go to a website that doesn't exist (because I forget to start my VPN), it brings me to the Virgilio search page. ...