I have been using Firefox, God!, forever. It used to be my go-to browser for everything. But, for the past year, and more frequently in the past six months, I feel like pulling my hair out whenever I use Firefox. Now, I find myself using it for maybe 10% of the time, only because I need a link or something on it. The other 90% of the time, I go to Chrome and, I am ashamed to admit, even IE. This really all began with version 7. The browser would hand up, or take excruciatingly long to load a page...any page. I had to turn off Browser Protection on my Antivirus/Firewall (F-Secure 2011) to fix the problem. Before you go blaming F-Secure, note that neither Chrome nor IE had any problems with Browser Protection. So, I simply stopped using Firefox. When version 8 came out, I gleefully installed it thinking that maybe I could get back to using FF and still keep my AV Web Protection on. But then this happened: I discovered that loading a flash-based website was horrifically slow. No kidding! And this had nothing to do with Browser Protection being on, because I turned it off again. I can load multiple (5 or 6) tabs of one of those Facebook games, like Barn Buddy, in Chrome or Internet Explorer in less than 5 sec. Firefox takes 20-30 secs to load just one, even in the background. And while that’s going on, my active page is basically frozen. So, once again, I have had to put my beloved browser on the shelf. I routinely clean my browser cache. I have even COMPLETELY uninstalled FF, with all the files and folders and Registry entries removed, and reinstalled it. I have been very cautious with installing extensions. But, none of these actions has helped. I am very frustrated. I love FF and would really like to make it my primary browser. But, how can I with all these nagging problems? Is Firefox finally losing it? Are the glory days over? I really hope not.