Macbook Pro/Mozill​a Firefox --Page Loading Problems

I experience 'page loading' problems when going from one page to another. Sometimes the page takes a long time to load. Sometimes it times out and never does load.
Does anyone else with this combination of laptop and browser experience these problems? Any suggestions for overcoming this lag?

I know OS X used to have some problems with the way some routers do DNS.  There was this topic a while ago:
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/DL-page​-load-speed-great-but-browser-quot-looking-up-quot​...
For our Mac we had to set the router to send external IP addresses of a DNS system (either verizon's or something like OpenDNS which we use).
You could manually change the DNS settings on the Mac to see if that fixes the problem and then you could mac the change the settings at the router level if you like.

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