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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

This has been giving me trouble for a while now and I hope someone else
has encountered it and found a solution.

VERY often now I click on a link to any random site and the status bar
at the bottom of Firefox shows "Looking up www.somesite.com..." and
often takes so long that I get the Firefox time out page "Firefox can't
find the server at www.somesite.com."  Now this part is consistent 100%
of the time:  I immediately click the "Try Again" button on that timeout
page and the domain look up happens in a fraction of a second and I'm
immediately loading that page.

I am already using DNS servers other than ones my ISP provides and I've 
tried several different ones with no improvement. I really think its 
some sort of Firefox issue as I never experience this slowness when 
executing dig, ping, or connecting to sites from code.

I don't know if this is just a Mac + Firefox issue but I'm on Mac.

Anybody else?

Tony