Firefox 3.6 is unbelievably slow

Tried FF and got rid of it. IE is superb on Windows 7.

on chrome now, had a bit of a playaround. its pretty fun, runs ALOT smoother and faster than FF, despite its multi process memory. im still not decided tho, i might go on to maxthon..
any thoughts?

This is aimed at who and with regards to what?

faun, no pun intended, but honestly, you should be looking for another browser. I've been through these up & down swings with FF for over a year now, I hate to say it, but I just don't see things improving. I know that currently, they are the #2 browser, but with every release of another FF, the things that are "fixed" are listed. What about the things that are still unfixed and not discussed? FF 3.5 was their best and fastest browser, back last summer. FF 3.6.2 was just released, this may satisfy you, but I'll never place it near my computers again.

You and your Firefox speed issues.

Try the FF update to v3.6.2. It seems to be working faster now and is more secure.

See the screenshots I posted on 3-24 late PM.

Have dumped Firefox, is IE8 any better?

I'm running latest FF on an XP machine and it's fine. No issues here. Having said that things change for reasons unknown (to me at least). I was running 3.5 for ages then it got unstable. I deleted it and re-installed an earlier version and it was fine. Some time later I upgraded again and it was fine, so to the current version. This I did without altering any other programs or add-ons I had been using.

Mike

Couldn't agree more.

I would use Google Chrome but my Roboform is not yet able to work with it

On a XP system, FF (or any other aftermarket browser) will perform better than IE8 does. IE8 will install on XP, but there's too many page errors, and it didn't perform as good as IE7 does. I really believe IE8 was meant for Vista / Win 7, as it runs better on the later OS's. I had IE7 on my XP Pro laptop, and it ran good until I installed IE8 on it. I suffered with this until the 3.5RC of FF was released, I installed it, and my laptop performed like new again. And I tried it on other XP installs, same thing again. So with XP, it's either IE7 (which is still available, with all updates), or another browser of your choice. The one good thing about FF is that upon uninstalling, you can save your configuration to reinstall later, if you want to.