Fireox became excruciatingly slow to load web pages immediately after following Stop Censorship link over Firefox logo on start page.

Immediately after I followed the Stop Censorship link on the Firefox opening page and e-mailed congressional representatives, Firefox has become extremely glitchy - web pages take forever to load. I had upgraded to Firefox 8 two days ago. Could this be a virus/worm set by pro-censorship or anti-open source agencies like ?Microsoft or is this a problem with the beta version of Firefox 8? I did not notice the extreme slowing of web page loading after upgrading to Firefox 8, but it happened directly after I followed and acted on the Stop Internet Censorship links. My Norton internet security scans shows "no threats detected". Also I am unable to submit this feedback to Firefox: When I click on the Submit Feedback button, nothing happens. What to do? Should I go back to 3.6 or what to do next? Any other Firefox community members have this problem?

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I cannot quite fathom why this solution works (since browsing seemed slower without Sophos installed) but with Sophos 9 installed and turning off the new functionality in Sophos 9: Web protection / Block malicious downloads... the browsing experience is again very fast with the exception of netspeed.test.

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