Sick of firefox

Since updating firefox I have to load every page a minimum of three times. Sometimes I have to load a page ten or fifteen times. I am not exaggerating. Also, whenever I use Google images, firefox crashes unless I'm in safe mode. However, disabling all the add-ons except the minimum doesn't prevent crashing.

Firefox used to work so well for me! Switching back to the previous iteration won't solve a thing, though, as the only reason I updated it was that it stopped working well.

I wonder if the new firefox is simply not optimized to work with xp? I'm not about to switch operating systems, though. For one thing, I'm underemployed (yes, I'm working a little now, and I may be working full-time again by July, though at a lesser rate of pay and I think reduced hours -- the reduced hours part is fine with me, though). For another thing later operating systems don't play well with Sims 2. For another -- I have not heard really great things about vista and seven (seven is apparently much better than vista, carrying on the microsoft tadition of alternating horrible bad os with rather decent os) in general. For another almost all my software is pretty old and I hear bad things about compatibility in general qwith older software.

The only new things I have are photoshop&illustrator (and I'm still using paintshop 9 for most things as I am lazy) and this stupid, stupid firefox. I use word perfect 11 and I like it very much, thank you, and there you have it. For editors who ask for a Word document I send them an .rtf document, which preserves formatting just fine and is universally readable. I did have an editor many years ago who kept saying she couldn't read my documents in .rtf, but in retrospect I believe it was the disks, since everything I had saved on those disks for myself was unreadable a couple of years later.

I am so glad I don't have to use disks for submitting anymore.