in reply to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox latency using RemoteObject
- disable all addons you don't need in the browser
- disable images
- disable javascript
you do that in Edit->Preferences->Content_tab
alternatively, you can consider studying the requests Firefox does for a login on that site using Firebug and replicating all those requests using LWP for example using the appopriate headers and GET/POST parameters.
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