That's not unusual for Firefox - sadly.  Its memory usage is about the only drawback associated with it :emotion-6:

However, I use Firefox myself, and it doesn't affect me at all if I leave it running in the background, whilst working on anything else... simply because Firefox is hardly using any CPU time, and I have 4GB RAM installed.

How much RAM do you have in your system, and what CPU is in it?

Also... what OS are you using?

I have 1.25 GB RAM and windows xp.

I did not have this problem in the past

how can i fix it?

thanks

I am a little disappointed though how come no one (Dell representative)  can give me an official answer of how to fix the problem.

I feel lucky that some members take the time to help me....

I have XP SP2 running on my 110L with 1.25GB of RAM, and I have noticed that Firefox takes several seconds 5+ to load. It is probably, because of the stupid anti-virus and firewall program I am forced to run because it is WIndows.

thanks

any ideas for resolving my issue?

I disabled the norton protection(both firewall and antivirus) it is still slow. so it does not have to do with  the antivirus protection

mediocre forum......

mediocre forum

Maybe if you posted in a more applicable forum section, rather than this DESKTOP AUDIO section - for Audio Problems you would get more responses.  Also keep in mind this is a users helping users forum.  If someone had something to add they would post.

But this is NOT a Dell Problem.  My Dell does not slowdown with FF.

My Dell doesn't slow down with firefox either. Just face the fact that your desktop is a bust.

I've notice that too regarding firefox, so I use Safari for Windows and Google Chrome which work smoothly.

I quit IE a long time ago.