A whimsical notion..

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Had some trouble recently with IE 7 acting slow etc, old Acer 9300 laptop doing well otherwise despite its years. Usual fixes, spyware search, reg defrag clean, registry manual check for things, running processes, , no Norton etc., all the usual supects. Not much change to slooow performance. Then started using (already installed) Firefox out of sheer petulance, when using IE again, things have improved....

"Puzzled of the New Republic of Jockistan"

[Capetonian]

I think Firefox is more resource hungy than IE, I also use the former out of sheer petulance, but keep getting pop-up warnings from AVG that it is using a lot of memory.

[mustpost]

Thank Cape , used to be an AVG person, now running Avast, no warnings. Obviously it's registry issue, probably solved with the reformat, but I was intrigued when a change of browser seemed to put some order back into the IE camp. I had also sorted a lot of plugins and things as well - the only change was using Firefox for an hour, and then Explorer started to behave itself - bit like 'HAL'