Linux and the WWW

[MichaelG653]

I am currently testing out my third linux distro PCLinuxOS after trying Mandriva (several versions) and ubuntu and have been impressed with the ease of use by a newbie to linux (me), but at the same time I have noticed that each distro runs slowly on the internet. I mean the loading of web pages (I have addressed this issue in another thread under Alternative Operating Systems http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?p=1264341#post1264341) but was wondering if anyone else had had this problem????:confused: Don't get me wrong, I am not giving up on Linux and I love this distro, but the slow web page loading is a major distraction. Could it be the translating of pages into linux fonts from windows fonts that slows it down? :confused: Any other theories???? Now chat applications and downloads seem to go quick enough, just the web pages are crawling along.

[LeftyAce]

I've never noticed a difference.....
Which web browser are you using? And are your DNS settings set up properly (they should be if you can browse at all).

[mairving]

It's probably more of a browser issue (no IE on Linux) than an OS issue. Firefox renders pages a bit slower than IE. You might try Opera which generally renders pages faster but has other issues on occasion.

[MichaelG653]

Yes Opera does load faster, but still slower than Windows IE/Firefox. Did a test on the DNS and a numeric address starts faster than a name address, but both take over 2 minutes to completely load. Will keep experimenting with the settings and see if I can improve it.

[Force Flow]

What are the specs on your machine? It could be that it can't handle both the GUI and the browser running at the same time.

[kev7555]

I'm running Ubuntu with Firefox and it loads pages about twice as fast as my windows boxes do. That was one of the first things I noticed about surfing the web using Ubuntu was the increased speed.

Has to be some other problem. It's not Linux.

-Kev

[glc]

Let's close this one and continue in the other thread - it IS a Linux problem, the same computer browses fine in Windows.