I have a Firefox question for all the computer smart people out there. It might have been better asked on a computer website, but I just like ya'll better. Here goes.

I was using Firefox as my primary web browser on my home computer (1 year old HP running Media Center with all updates.

Firefox recently (when I started it) would bog down, and my hard drive would show continuous activity for like 5 minutes. During this time, internet access would be p a i n f u l l y slow, sometimes non-existant. My internet access is via cable modem through Time Warner Cable, so it is usually quick.

In the end, I got rid of Firefox and went back to Explorer. I don't know what Firefox was doing to my computer, if it was sending my data out to some other server, I don't know. I do know that this doesn't happen with IE.

I did like Firefox better, though, and would reinstall it if I knew what it was doing and how to stop it. The wait was annoying as well.

Any ideas?