Simple Computing

I have been a very satisfied user of Firefox over several years now. Recently I put Firefox 3 on a friend's computer and was very impressed. It was blindingly quick, and the new GUI was not so far different form the old one, which always makes life easier (unlike say the switch to IE7).

So I put 3 on my computer, which ground to a total halt. The cause was immediately apparent, it was increasing the percentage of CPU resources used for kernal mode running (60%+ against maybe 20% with Firefox 2 on my very elderly PC). I didn't manage to download a single page as a result, and it was soon off again. If I ever get a new computer, that's the time I'll give it another try.