Firefox and Chrome slow on localhost; known fix doesn't work on Windows 7

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Published on 2009-11-13T01:31:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 19:42 UTC
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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 the answer to this question.

::1 localhost

However, as noted in this question, in Windows 7 this line is already commented out:

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1 localhost
#   ::1 localhost

Is there an alternative way to disable the ::1 localhost reference in Windows 7?

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