Firefox extremely slow

Now for months, Firefox has been doing the spinning beach ball with practically every action I take on OS X 10.5.8.
It doesn't matter what I do -- try to type something, go to a webpage -- spinning beach ball.
Safari is a speed demon compared, but all my old bookmarks are in Firefox.
Where did you guys go wrong? This is a problem on both my laptop and my desktop running different systems.
Spinning beach ball. Spinning beach ball. I'm typing this on Safari and there is NOTHING wrong with THAT.

Odd . . . it SEEMS to be MUCH better in safe mode but I'll have to play around for a few days to see how it's doing.
Trouble is, I have no idea what add-ons are necessary (ie. Shockwave, Flip4Mac etc.) and what aren't. I guess I'll find out. But for now the beach ball is thankfully seemingly deflated . . .

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