Firefox

Firefox slow to open a new tab

Ok , this is some new behavior i'm experienceing with FF 2.0. When I double-click in a tab bar to open a new tab it take up to 8 seconds to open it. Sometimes it goes away after restarting the FF ... sometimes it doesn't. Looking in task manager all I see is that FF consumes huge amounts of memory (up to 200 MB working set). I'm at a loss here!

Firefox toolbar tooltips missing

 I am spending lots of time tweaking FireFox recently, so I figured I will gripe about the things that annoy my the most. I noticed several weeks ago that yellow mouse tooltips stopped showing. It manifested in ForecastFox, Google Calendar weather icons and Google Calendar Notifier extensions.  Searching the web did not help, because I was getting tons of irrelevant info about FF displaying TITLE , but not ALT in tooltips. Eventually  read more »