LooseSuits

I have had problems with it I removed all my add ons except fire fpt and it is much better.

Good thinking, I'm going to drop some of the extra fluff that I no longer use...

Done. Nice, great results. Not sure about the boggin' down issue, but it startsup a helluva lot faster and sems to be a bit more responsive...

I don't use firefox anymore except for testing because of this.

You said you are too lazy to update... Does that include Firefox? What version are you running? Many of those memory-related issues have been fixed in recent versions.

Hey WebMajor, I'm on 2.0.0.6. I just checked for an update with its built in checker and it said "No Updates!".

FireFox can hog a lot of memory on Windows, especially if you have a lot of extensions installed. On my mac I only have about 4 extensions and it seems to run quite fast.

It depends on what I'm doing... it's usually blazing fast unless I have a LOT of media rich content up and then it just drags ass.

It all depends on the amount of extensions that you have installed. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to set up a Portable Firefox instance for web development and such (I'll just deal with my slow browser because I like using my extensions to inspect/research random websites as I browse).

The last patch seems dreadful. I hate to admit it but I get better performance from Internet Explorer. I'd like to go back to the previous version but it was a security patch and I'm afraid that would be unsafe.

It depends on what I'm doing... it's usually blazing fast unless I have a LOT of media rich content up and then it just drags ass.

That's the biggest issue for me. If a Youtube video or even a simple flash animation is running, I notice the hit. Kind of crappy when you are actually working on a site that has any of these components!

Yes, Firefox has been hurting lately. It has turned into just a development tool for me. I use Konqueror/Epiphany on Linux and I have been playing with K-Meleon on Windows. Upcoming Opera 9.5 is also something to look out for.

Oh yeah, that reminds me...any page with Flash (especially a Flash video combined with Flash ads) on it just lags up Firefox. I think thats more of a Flash problem then a Firefox problem though.

I got a new computer last month and Firefox works fine on it, but I had to stop using it except for page checking on my old one. It was ok for simple browsing, butm as other people have said, if I tried to watch a video or view a page which contained Flash it became impossibly slow.

Firefox always craps out on my work pc, but runs just fine on my Mac at home. I had this problem even before I added a bunch of extensions, I don't know why it's such a hog.

Old version of Firefox is better , recomend

Buy more RAM, a lot more RAM.