Click the orange Firefox button, go to Add-ons, then Plugins and remove the following: * Hotbar * Hotbar SAI Plugin * My Web Search All three are adware servers and will slow your system down to a crawl. For more info on both see: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbar * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_web_search ---- Also, update the following. * Java via http://www.java.com/en/ * Adobe Flash via http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ * Adobe Shockwave for Director via http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ * Adobe Reader via http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO As regards the Adobe updates, the versions you have installed at the moment are a security risk. See http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-02.html