I also confirm this behavior of Firefox on my Pentium4 2.66GHz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 6200/256MB. Firefox is generally very slow, but in certain sites (like GMail) it becomes completely unusable. Scrolling is jerky and causes CPU usage to reach tops and all other applications to freeze. Every action I take in firefox will take several seconds to be served. On the same computer with XP Firefox and everything else run like a marvel. I think it's worth to say that I have enabled the drivers for hardware acceleration and all visual effects (like rotating cube and wobbly windows) perform amazingly fast. Last but not least, I tried some alternative browsers, and I surprisingly saw that the problem occurs with other browsers as well. Then I discovered that all the browsers that cause the freezing problems use the same rendering engine, Gecko. So, I think that we should address the problem in Gecko and not specifically in Firefox.
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