I have 4 browsers currently installed. ie 10, srware iron 28, pale moon 20.3 and, of course, firefox (v21 or 22) ONLY Firefox exhibits the following behaviour and it does so even in "safe mode" and after a reinstall with either v21 or v22. Clearing history and cache has no effect. And it's only been doing this since, I think, last Thursday. I start up fine. Browser opens in 3-5 seconds. No problem so far! REGARDLESS of the tab state (multiple tabs from previous session, or single home page tab) it then takes 40+ seconds to connect to and open the first page. After that, it's good as gold and flying along nicely. But that initial delay is getting very irritating. Initially I assumed it was caused by an update in either Avast or Zonealarm as their "web protection" elements are a menace. But they weren't guilty. Avast plugin was not installed and Zonealarm's was installed but disabled. I even disabled their external components completely for a few tests and it made no difference. And, as I say above, I tried it in safe mode to eliminate the possibility it was one or more of my other plugins. No difference. The fact that the other browsers connect as instantly as ever (I'm on an optic fiber connection with typical download speeds in excess of 65mb) suggests it's nothing to do with any of the usual external culprits and must be something in firefox. But even that is odd, given that I've been using v21 since it came out and v22 on and off since it came out. The only reason I'm not normally on v22 is that the copy and paste problem still hasn't been sorted. I certainly wasn't experiencing delayed connection in either version up till a few days ago. Suggestions?