Date: 08/10/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

While an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance? Firefox makes DNS requests to convert host name (like blog.taragana.com) to IP addresses (like 72.36.134.131), which [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-firefox-hacks-to-boost-performance/