How to let the browser prefer IPv6 over IPv4?

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Published on 2010-10-24T11:41:12Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 8:31 UTC
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I installed miredo and have IPv6 up and running it seems. I can ping6 hosts and download webpages with wget or my webbrowser when I specify IPv6 addresses, however whenever I specify a hostname that is offered over both IPv4 and IPv6 the browser picks the IPv4 address for the connection.

How can I change that and let the browser use IPv6 instead of IPv4 if available?

Googling around I found a hint that browsers will prefer IPv4 over IPv6 for 6to4/teredo tunnels, but so far I haven't found an explanation why or how to change that.

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