Firefox

[Pies]

Everybody keeps banging on about firefox and i used it myself a good 12 months ago.The thing was for some reason it developed a problem where it used to take up to 2 minutes to boot up.This happened on several occasions,now i do use several registry cleaners so i think that somewhere along the line some of Firefox's files got removed from the registry.The problem couldn't even be corrected with a reinstall of the programme only a full reinstall of xp resolved the issue.I got so naffed off that i reverted to the Opera browser which has had no running issues what so ever

Anybody else suffered similar problems?

[Zen]

Mine still takes an age to boot up,so you aren't the only one to have the problem.I tried Opera but just couldn't get used to it so I am still with Firefox.

[theren_911]

Did you empty Firefox's Cache every so often? That could be a reson for it taking an age to boot up

[rojash]

I think it depends on which extensions you have installed. I believe the latest (1.5) version is supposed to load quicker, but when I tried the beta version, I had lots of problems with sites I use regularly, plus some of the extensions I rely on were not available. It took me 3 days of hard work to reverting back to 1.0.7, so I'm too scared to try the upgrade at the moment.

[Pies]

I used crap cleaner here regularly reset a few parameters and also set Firefox as Prefetch 1 but still couldn't resolve the problem

[Pies]

Just to add : the browser itself loaded then seemed to hang for ages before i could type anything in