Grip becomes unusably slow...

I've been trying to rip some MP3's from my CD collection using grip. Ever since I turned on the ID3 tagging thing for encoding MP3s it's become ridiculously slow...
I really want the ID3 tags because I'm hoping to get an ipod and I believe they use them, but it's taking over an hour to rip one track - if it even succeeds!
Any ideas as to how I can improve on this...?

You could try to first dump the cd image on hd, en then do the real work on that. (I have no experience doing this kind of things, so don't ask me how to do this or that)

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Firefox becomes really slow then eventually unresponsive when loading a page with many hires images. Unsual high memory usage up to 2gigs just for firefox. Was never a problem with v3.6.

When loading a page with many hires images, Firefox becomes really slow and scrolling becomes jumpy then eventually becomes completely unresponsive. Unusual high memory usage of up to 2gigs just for firefox when loading these pages. This was never a problem with v3.6.

I encountered the same type of problem. Firefox running terribly slowly and slowing down my entire machine (Core i5 with 256GB SSD). Searching the forums, I found a couple of things about troubleshooting performance issues, one of which was to use '''hardware acceleration''', that is on by default. It was turned on on my PC, '''so I tried deactivating it, and it worked!'''
So doing the exact opposite as Mozilla support said solved the problem. It is really a pain now to work with Firefox. I'm using it because I have no choice, but I'd recommend IE and Chrome over Firefox... Whatever, the market will decide once Firefox has become to crappy...

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