jamiemac2005

The network issue would be obvious from the way your network is set up and if another browser acts in the same way. (Example being IE, which is why i asked about performance of IE?)

I think i'm going to go down undocked windy's route here...
- Press [Winkey]+R or click start-run to open the run dialogue
- Type firefox.exe -safe-mode
- Press run

Then try everything again, if it's still just as slow post back saying so.

Cheers,
Jamey

p.s. Actually if it's still as slow, please clear your private data (Tools->Options->Privacy->Clear Now) because temporary files can cause this sort of lag (but you'd need to be downloading Gigabytes at a time.