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I am only moderately computer literate, but I keep my software up to date and I use Firefox. I am running Windows XP on an Inspiron 9300.

Yesterday I saw a "Click here to Download Firefox (new version)" here. I think it was 2.0, but it was whichever one you would download on mozilla.com. I went through the process and shut down. Since then I have just been crawling when I want to load a page. It doesn't matter what site I am on.

The more complex pages just run forever, but it takes a least a minute to run even a plain text page. This is true with both Firefox and Explorer, but IE is a bit better. It is not my wireless connection. My wife's computer and my other laptop all run fine. I have deleted unneeded programs and cleaned up my temporary files, but I knew that wouldn't really do anything. Would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what is happening? For what its worth, Full Tilt is actually running better than usual.