[UseYourHead]

The honeymoon is over - malware authors are now targeting Firefox as successfully as IE. The stories are only now coming in about the many flaws in the program as well. Security websites have all the statistics and while Firefox may have provided a refuge, that refuge is only temporary.

There are some nice features in Firefox but on my machine Firefox and Thunderbird both run slower and slower and slower until I have to kill both processes to even be able to use the computer.

[mlbford2]

I run multiple FF browsers(mostly java apps) for work during the day. No problems here. I run a MS XP*home* with 500megs ram and 2.8 GHz processor(multi threading).

[toadthesecond]

The honeymoon is over - malware authors are now targeting Firefox as successfully as IE

I doubt it - firefox (and opera) do not allow the same level of access to the local filesystem as IE does.

[ecurbh]

on my machine Firefox and Thunderbird both run slower and slower and slower until I have to kill both processes to even be able to use the computer.

Strange, I'm not sure what would cause that. I keep FF and Thunderbird running on my machine 24/7 for weeks on end with no such problems.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I split my time between Firefox and IE on 5 or 6 different machines.  It runs perfect on my SuSE and Win 2000 boxes but bogs and crashes on my XP systems.  The bogging is pretty difficult to peg down.

[SengirV]

I was waiting for the 1st M$ clone to give a negative post.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't have that problem....I have others though!

[Musket]

Firefox and Thunderbird both run slower and slower and slower until I have to kill both processes to even be able to use the computer.

I had that problem once. Turns out the tools>options>privacy>download manager history was set to "manually". I changed that to "upon successful download" and POOF - no more problems.