XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   "J. P. Gilliver (John)"  wrote   
      
   | I too have a hosts file, but I still sometimes see FF waiting for a site   
   | that I've got blocked there (google-analytics being one I notice a lot);   
   | I can only presume that's because some script that _is_ running is   
   | trying to interrogate that site, and I have no control over that. (Any   
   | thoughts, other than blocking _all_ scripts?)   
   |   
      
       I don't know what goes on there. I just tried   
   an experiment, loading numerous webpages, because   
   I know I've seen the kind of thing you describe.   
   All loaded almost instantly except one that showed   
   it was calling fonts.googleapis.com for about 1   
   second. I have that domain in my HOSTS file. So   
   why did it try to reach that domain? I've seen the   
   theory that the problem is using 127.0.0.1 and that   
   127.0.0.0 is better, but I've never tried that.   
      
     Or was it just that the status bar didn't update   
   quickly? The page was loaded while it seemed to be   
   waiting on Google. I don't know the explanation.   
   But I don't think I've ever seen it pause for more   
   than about 1 second.   
      
      It can't be script because I block all script most   
   of the time. (I use Pale Moon with all sorts of things   
   disabled for most activity. I use FF with NoScript   
   only when I need to allow interaction. That's not   
   actually very often.)   
      
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