On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:29 AM, <kmadananteshwar.vbhat at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks ! > I am facing the following problems with internet on my acer aspire 2920 laptop running > centos 5.2 ; whenever I launch mozilla firefox 3 beta 5 it takes at least one and a half hours Run a ping to some nearby well-known IP, such as your router, and look for lost and duplicated packets, which could indicate a problem with your network drivers (are you using wireless?). Also check that your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts are correct, there has in the past been an obscure problem that causes the whole X window system to perform poorly when it's unable to resolve an IP address for the local host name.