Firefox 6.8 is taking 5 minutes or longer to load when I first start my computer (a 5-year-old Dell running XP).

Once it finally loads it works fine. I'm using Comodo firewall and Microsoft Security Essentials.

I can just about guarantee you it's your security system (and possibly the number of items you have initiated at start up) that is delaying the start up of your machine. I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate (over a Windows Vista Home Premium) and it did not load properly because of features of Norton 360 even though I had (in theory) disabled Norton 360 during the installation of Windows 7. It was taking 28 minutes to start up. Microsoft representative fixed it by disabling/removing Norton 360 and it took about less than one minute to start up (and fixing some inconsistencies with Windows 7 during the installation). By re-enabling Norton 360 after it was reinstalled it now takes about 3+ minutes to start up. So security devices I am guessing adds about 2.5 to 3 minutes of start up time. My computer is relatively new and almost all start up devices are disabled so that could explain why yours may be taking a bit longer.
The other thing you can try doing is go to the Windows box in the lower left corner click it, go t a ll programs, go to accessories and click it to open, go to Run, and type in msconfig and then hit enter. A box should appear, go to the Start up box and see what devices are starting up with your computer. Your computer will start up without any of these checked so uncheck them all and see how long your computer takes to start up. Then do it again after disabling Microsoft Security Essential and your firewall. That should give you a good idea now much additional time the security features are taking to start up your computer.
Hmmmm... why do PC's take so long to boot up and my wife's iPad is instant start and I can be on the web via safari in under 15 seconds. I wonder .....

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