No explanation for your problem, but I do have a few suggestions to make the phenomenon less cumbersome:

1. Are you actually reopening the browser for each site, rather than putting them on tabs? It will be quicker just opening a new tab.

2. There is an extension (Add on) called Session Manager. It remembers all the open tabs when FF crashes, or at the moment you close it for good. When it reboots, you can tell it to reload the current session, and all you tabs (web addresses) are automatically reload. Unfortunately, it won't work with your old FF version 1.0, only 2.0-3. At the top of the FF page, click on tools, then Extensions (or Add ons). or go here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324

3. I still use Windows ME, and I too procrastinated to change over to the current version of FF, thinking it would take up more memory and slow my computer. Not so.

4. Egads! Don't know what I'd do if my PC ran as slow as yours. Thank goodness I have been a diligent reader of this forum. I have learned so much here. I keep my PC lean, only download plug ins and programs I really need, and no foofoo stuff, like a desktop background pic - plain blue for me. Lots of good info on "Computer too slow" here. Do a search on this forum. Good Luck!

It might help if you update your version of Mozilla. I am using version number 1.1.4

" Are you actually reopening the browser for each site, rather than putting them on tabs? It will be quicker just opening a new tab. "

not sure what tabs means. i open a mozilla browser for 1 website and while reading there on that page i open 3 or 4 other websites. so as they load i read at the 1st then i read one of those others as i go to another site at the one i just read. follow that?

" It might help if you update your version of Mozilla. I am using version number 1.1.4 "

do you mean might as in 'it is possible' or are you telling me i need to stop using the old browser? :) just curious.

BIG question to all - if i download the newest browser from FF:
1. will it run using windows 98 second edition?
2. MORE importantly will FF transfer all my current favorites into the new version? i have dozens of favorites and many are folders with folders with those folders have additional links. i'd hate to lose all these and have to add them from scratch!

thanks,

tom

The answer to question 2 is "yes" it will transfer your favorites (or bookmarks) into the new version. Not sure about Win 98SE, but the FF website should tell you. Go there and check it out.

tig, the same thing I think was happening to me there for a while. I was having a whole lot of problems at the time though...no updated antivirus working 'all' of the time, no firewall, just lacking a lot of good protection and no way to stay on dial-up line long enough to get anything downloaded and working.

I eventually got high speed, and protection and things ended up working themselves out. I like you had many pages open at once, and it would shut down...usually giving me a seconds counter counting down b4 it happened. I would just log off, well actually I usually had to press and hold the button on the tower to get away from things. Once I would turn it back on, and log on, it would ask me if I wanted to restore session, to which I replied 'yes' and all the tabs I had open previously would reopen...in time.

ok, i know no one sympathizes with me on dialup but that's my life!
Oh, but I can empathize...been there...done that...wanted to pull hair out and scream! There was just no other option available for an ISP at the time...so I do understand.

" Are you actually reopening the browser for each site, rather than putting them on tabs? It will be quicker just opening a new tab. "

Not sure what tabs means. I open a mozilla browser for 1 website and while reading there on that page I open 3 or 4 other websites. So as they load I read at the 1st then I read one of those others as I go to another site at the one I just read. follow that?

Just how do you open another website? page? thread?
Go to a favorite and right click on it and choose "Open in new window or open in new tab?

Go to a forum, and see a message you are interested in reading and then right click on it and choose "Open in new window or open in new tab?

Go to file (upper left corner) and left it to click on open new 'window' or open new tab? And then click on a favorite to open in that tab?

When you have lots of pages open, does the brief header appear above or below the page you are looking at? If they are 'above' they are tabs. If they are below, they are windows. You can open several tabs in each window.

Have I made any sense whatsoever?

Sue...who sometimes has 5, 10, or20 'tabs' open or opening at once.

Maybe site XYZ has an extra large page download. What's your RAM (memory)? Right click on My computer, under the general tab, what does it say? This will also give you info for what you might need to run newer versions of FF.

Are you actually reopening the browser for each site, rather than putting them on tabs?

By this I meant are you doing tabs or windows as discussed above, or are you re-launching the browser each time you open a new page. In other words, are you clicking on the FF icon each time you want to open another page? This takes longer on my computer.

wow, who knew!

Just how do you open another website? page? thread?
Go to a favorite and right click on it and choose "Open in new window or open in new tab?
Go to a forum, and see a message you are interested in reading and then right click on it and choose "Open in new window or open in new tab?

Go to file (upper left corner) and left it to click on open new 'window' or open new tab? And then click on a favorite to open in that tab?

ok, i open another mozilla brower window by clicking on the ff icon. then i click on favorites and left click the name of the site i want to go to. so i right clicked on the name of a favorite and sure enough "open in new tab" is an option! never ever right clicked a favorite name. jeesh! so apparently i "open in new window" not in tabs. no wonder i had no idea what that meant!

When you have lots of pages open, does the brief header appear above or below the page you are looking at? If they are 'above' they are tabs. If they are below, they are windows. You can open several tabs in each window.

so like what the heck is a brief header? i went to a mozilla window that i had google opened and right clicked another fav and wow i see the brief header! no i never did this so i do not use the tabs. gee i like the tabs, i can switch from one site to another w/o having to read or guess the name in the box at the bottom of the screen with the mozilla icon and click on it, sometimes the name is not good enough to know just what website it is for, tabs seems to make that obvious. yes i like this. is there any advantage to using tabs vs windows other than just 1 window can be used for many different website simutaneously when opening in tabs?

What's your RAM (memory)? Right click on My computer, under the general tab, what does it say?

127 mb of ram

thanks, this is very enlightening! not everyone has access to a 10 year old!!!! :)

tom

tig...Glad you got the tab thingy all figured out working to your advantage.

I usually just use one window with many tabs open (or opening depending on the speed at the moment).

I suppose I 'could' open a window, and then open a bunch of GW tabs.

Then I could open another 'window' and go to another big site and opn several forums in different tabs there.

Yes...IMHO tabs as really convenient and I love knowing to to use them. Sure makes surfing the net a lot more pleasureable.

I also have my favorites (folders and things in them) displayed on a side bar on the left...very handy. One is marked GW FAVS and I leave it open to see all the time. Then with just 2 clicks, I can right click on a fav in the fav folder, and then click on 'open in new tab. One can even choose to open all the favs in the folder at once, but I find opening 27 folders at once takes a good bit of time. Tis better to just choose a few of the favorite favorites and open them a few at a time.

Did any of that make sense? Do you maybe have things set up like that already?

Sue

yes but i am confused about the side bar on left. i remember seeing something referring to that but i can't find it now. what is that?

tom

Ok, with Firefox open. go to the top and click View>sidebar>bookmarks

You will then see Folders and individual favorites. By clicking on a folder (like say GW favorites) you can open it, leave it open, and then with just 2 clicks open any of the things listed in the folder.
(initially)Left click on folder to open and see all the links in it.
right click on anything in it
choose open in new tab.

Taadaa! Now go open bunches of them (in new tabs)and let them load while you read the first one(s) to open/load.

Sue

duh! now that i see it i know what you meant but thanks for telling me how to see it.

tom

Control+B will also open the bookmark sidebar. Control+H will open history sidebar, which I use a lot.