title: Firefox and Chrome slow on localhost; known fix doesn't work on Windows 7
body: <p>Firefox and Chrome are known to be slow on localhost when IP6 is enabled. In previous versions of Windows, the simplest fix is to comment out this line from the hosts file, as explained in <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/43823/google-chrome-is-slow-to-localhost">the answer to this question</a>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>::1 localhost
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/4689/windows-7-localhost-name-resolution-is-handled-within-dns-itself-why">as noted in this question</a>, in Windows 7 this line is already commented out:</p>
  
  <pre><code># localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
  #   127.0.0.1 localhost
  #   ::1 localhost
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there an alternative way to disable the <code>::1 localhost</code> reference in Windows 7?</p>