I've been having problems with my Firefox browser slowing down my computer significantly and it has gotten worse recently. Every time I go and use the browser and have it open for a while and use multiple tabs, it eventually starts consuming my computers resources and slowing everything down to the point where it is unbearable. It consumes a great deal of my memory and I have 2 gigs of memory. It also will at times consume all my cpu cycles. What is going on here?

Are you saying, the version of IE you have installed is normal & FF is slow?

You could download and try the Opera browser.

Before blaming Firefox suggest minimise your open windows then right click your Desktop Taskbar |Taskmanager |Processes and find out what is consuming CPU . I have a Microtek Scanner that uses SDII.exe which has a bug that uses 100% CPU erratically and slows down the computer.

I already checked that. I referred to that in my post. I mentioned that Firefox was consuming a large portion of my memory and was up to about 100% on the cpu cycles. I saw that in the Task Manager. Firefox is doing this to me all the time now if I have the browser open for a while. I don't know if it is an issue with the browser or something else.

Have a look at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewt... Some plugins and web sites can be a problem

That link is from 2004. Do you have the latest version of Firefox? I would do a clean install, this means uninstall Firefox, delete the C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Mozilla folder, then reinstall. Make sure you back up your bookmarks before you do this, cause it will erase them. You can backup your bookmarks to a file with the bookmark manager > file > export.