The first thing to try is running FireFox in Safe Mode, not to be confused with windows safe mode. If FireFox runs or loads page faster in Firefox safe mode then this would indicate a Firefox add / on is causing issue. Google Firefox Safe Mode you should find instructions for entering Firefox safe mode.

There is probably a lot of browser hijacks on it, run the program below, Download AdwCleaner http://general-changelog-team.fr/fr/downloads/finish/20-outils-de-xplode/2-adwcleaner Link below too for your convenience. Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool. ***Note: Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Right click in the adwCleaner.exe and select "run as adminstrator" 1 Click the Search button. 2 A logfile will automatically open after the scan has finished. 3 Please post the content of that logfile in your next reply. 4 Or you can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[R1].txt. Joe Here is a link that might be useful: AdwCleaner

I do not think it is my ISP because like I say, I clear the cashe and all is well for a short time. Yes i did run in safe mode without add-ons. Same results. It almost seems like I am low on memory (RAM), but I have 2gigs worth.

1. "I prefer IE as I have all my "favorites" saved." Yes...and if you want them in another browser, you install that browser, go into IE and export them to the other browser. Takes about a minute. You don't say what version of IE you are using, but here is a fairly typical set of instructions: Export Favorites from IE I have four browsers: IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. I hardly ever use IE anymore because to me it is so clunky compared to the other three, and the others also make it easier to do things when you are using the browser. But all four browsers have the same bookmarks; I just have to periodically update (export) them so that they are all available regardless of whichever browser I use. In addition, Favorites are nothing but a file that you can also export and store on a thumb drive. This is a good idea to do in any case: if your computer fails, as happens all too frequently, you can easily restore the Favorites from the thumb drive to a new computer and not lose them all. As someone who has had more than one computer die, use of this precaution meant that I didn't have to reconstruct the 1000's of Favorites I have accumulated over 25 years of computer use. 2. "I thought if I just switched to another tab that I was turning it on." All tabs are active. Just because you switch to another, doesn't mean that the ones in the background aren't using bandwidth. If, for example, they are updating or playing videos continuously, you are using just as much bandwidth as if you were viewing them. 3. "She suggested using google but I prefer IE..." Using Google as your home page doesn't mean you are using Google as your browser. Google -- the company -- does have a browser called Chrome, but you have to download it to use it. If you are using Google as your home page, it just means it's the page the browser opens up to...it's not different from the zillion other web pages you could choose as your home page. Using the Google search page as a home page is a good choice. 4. "I have an HP with 1 T of hard drive so it is my understanding that I can leave several tabs open..." The size of your hard drive is not a factor. Your Internet activity and the tabs you have open load into the computer's RAM, an entirely different kind of memory that is part of the computer's motherboard (the guts that run the computer), not the hard drive. My computer is old and probably has less RAM than yours, but I often have 10 or 15 tabs open. Ultimately, if you have too many tabs open your browser will slow down or crash, but that is a function mainly of the amount of RAM available. RAM stores things temporarily, not permanently, like a hard drive.