all of a sudden this morning my Firefox is moving so slow I can't even use it.  I tried clearing my cache and reseting my computer (the extent of my troubleshooting abilities) and that didn't help.  Chrome and IE both are moving fine.  any ideas?

I was having issues with firefox as well and decided to spend some time sunday getting chrome to work like I wanted to instead of fixing firefox.  so far, so good.

did you recently upgrade a version of firefox (maybe automatically)?
that could be it.  I think the recent upgrade has some bugs in it.

edit:  even though you fixed it, go to chrome.

it is worth the change.  I found all the extensions I care about in chrome.

I should just get over myself and realize that there is no privacy on the internet. But it's eerie knowing that every character i enter into the url bar is sent directly to, and archived by, google. Even if I don't hit the enter key. I'll trade chrome's extension support for whatever shred of extra privacy i get by using safari (which uses the same engine as chrome). Or Opera. Its new version is essentially as fast as chrome, and has some nice skins...