Doug, I've seen a couple of cases recently where a person's Safari or Firefox bookmarks file has somehow gotten tens of thousands of duplicate bookmarks with no URLs, and one of these two people told me that this caused a slowdown in Firefox and Safari. If you're still having the problem, please look through all of your bookmarks. Also check the size of your bookmarks files: ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist ~/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles.xxxxxxxx.default/places.sqlite Unless you really do have tens of thousands of bookmarks, the Safari file should be less than a few hundred KB, and the Firefox file should be less than a few MB. Let me know if you need help in doing this, or if find anything suspicious. Sincerely, Jerry Krinock