Firefox problem

If you still have IE I suggest you run it and compare. Is it as slow to load? If so, it could be a virus or yuckware problem. All that this old timer can think of. Other than: I dock my 'puter at TrendMicro once a month where they groom out the newest yucky stuff.

I recall reading that Firefox is slower to load the initial page than IE, but it is quicker loading pages once it's up and running. I have no anecdotal evidence to support this, but that's what the claim was. So I don't think it's a surprise that the first page takes a few extra seconds to load up.

As panzade suggested, try opening IE at the same time and compare page load speeds. The problem could be a "yuckware"/spyware problem on your computer, as panzade mentioned, or it could be the servers you are trying to connect to are just being slow, which would slow down page loads whichever browser you use.

Although I can't say with absolute certainty, I suspect the slow loading problem is not a Firefox issue.