I’ve noticed at work that Vista and Firefox play horribly together. On several installs of Vista with Firefox 2, Firefox loads some websites very slowly. You can open IE and load the same website in a snap.

Naturally any normal user just wouldn’t deal with that problem and switch right over to IE. Microsoft gets more users back on IE quite simply like this. Fortunately for the geekier users out there, a quick search for “Firefox Slow Vista” reveals the remedy. Checkout Rob Garret’s site which is the top match in Google for how to fix the problem.

Apparently something called auto-tuning is what causes the problem. Doesn’t that sound a little backwards? Auto-tuning sounds like something that should be helping not hurting Firefox. I have no clue what auto-tuning is and don’t really care what it does as long as Firefox works. I do however wonder if this was a purposeful “problem”.

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