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	Speeding Up FireFox When Using the ASP.NET Development Server from Localhost

travislaborde

7-10-2008 7:26 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dbbd6a45-cb8a-4bce-8de5-bc7bf55c5a5d/FA7D7AF3-83A2-44C2-813A-B0FE5BD2AA94/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368" href="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368" style="font-size: 11px;">scottonwriting.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368"><H2>
			<A href="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx" id="_ctl0__ctl4_TitleUrl">Speeding Up FireFox When Using the ASP.NET Development Server from Localhost</A>
		</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">The problem was I noticed that Firefox was loading pages <EM>very slowly</EM>. I'd visit a site through localhost (via the <A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/58wxa9w5.aspx">ASP.NET Development Web Server</A>) and pages would take several seconds to load.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">Firebug will show you the total number of network resources downloaded when visiting a page, along with the time it took to download each.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scottonwriting.net/img/507B31E8-0355-4863-B66A-CD5C87CC0922" alt="Firebug" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">Each resource - from the 4KB HTML fiel to the 7KB JPG file, was taking close to a FULL second to retrieve!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">I next opened Internet Explorer - the same pages loaded instantaneously.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">Turns out that there is a known issue with Firefox's IPv6 support and the ASP.NET Web Development Server that introduces these lengthy delays.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/13367.aspx#13368">Consequently, to fix this problem of slow response times when visiting localhost using Firefox, either set the network.dns.diableIPv6 configuration property to true <EM>or</EM> set the <STRONG>network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains</STRONG> configuration property to “localhost”.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA7D7AF3-83A2-44C2-813A-B0FE5BD2AA94/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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