I have major issues running Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9 on my three year old Dell Inspiron running XP Professional. Besides being a massive memory and resource hog (task manager sometimes has it operating at 500,000Kb or more), opening some websites (most noticeably Facebook) often gums up everything including other programs. It has gotten to the point where it genuinely infuriates me and I have desires to toss my laptop at the nearest window. And I'm generally not an angry person...

I never thought I would say this, but Explorer is so much better at this point.

Does anyone else have these problems? I think I'm going to try out Chrome or Safari. What do you think?

It might be my laptop, but I don't think so. Because I can simultaneously run iTunes, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Word 2003 and Excel 2003 without any problems whatsoever. Only when Photoshop is stitching together relatively large panoramas does everything slowdown, but that is to be expected and I generally them leave my laptop alone for a few minutes.

So why is it that a stupid, simple web browser apparently has massive issues with just opening a simple website like GMail or the New York Times???? I have disabled a plethora of add-ons... doesn't help.

HELP????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!