Wget faster than Firefox

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

This afternoon I came across some web page pdfs that were *extremely* slow
to download and display, some to the point of being unusable. I then
discovered that the 'wget' command downloads those files in a matter of
seconds. Then I used acroread to display them.

This is with Firefox 24.0 under Linux Mint 16.

Trying it again this evening, I can't reproduce the effect, but I'm
curious: anyone know why this might happen?

Peter


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