First off I have a fairly nice computer

_{It's a Sager 2090 Notebook
2.2 T7500 Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa)
3 GB/s RAM
512 nVidia 8600GM
7200RPM 200GB Seagate Hdd (fastest notebook Hdd available )}


But recently I've noticed my CPU has been maxing out and firefox has been slow as all hell. So I googled it and someone found the fix:

tools-->options-->security--> uncheck "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery"

Firefox speeds right up and my cpu which was at 30-100% is back down to 1-4%.

You just have to be careful about "suspected forgery" sites... but hey "security economy and speed" are three words that are never grouped together except in Honda commercials.

just ran into this the other day. noted it got things moving a bit faster. a clean up of the SQLite DB that FF uses.

http://blog.mozill...refox-with-vacuum/

Chrome!

This simple trick works like a charm http://www.ubuntug...x-web-browser.html