Firefox ver5.0 is updated, Windows XP Pro is updated, AVG is updated(very slowly thanks to the several years old Sprint "high speed" broadband card which seems to cut out randomly).
Several things I noticed:
-Web pages don't fully load on the first try. Many fail after several attempts.
-After the latest round of Windows clean/defrag, the computer ran "like a top"(i.e. normally).
Immediately afterwards, the computer got another Windows update and it returned to it's old swayback nag self.
-"Clearing" the browser history, doesn't always work. Sometime it take several minutes of waiting and then returns a .
js error pop-up with web pages that were completely blocked originally.
Javascript and Firefox add-ons were updated without effect.
-The Yahoo Mail system went through an overhaul lately.
It somehow worked yesterday, but not today.
Still trying to access my business communication system.... I may have to go back to phone calls, paper, and smoke signals.