Interface slow and memory footprint large on Firefox 1.5 and WIndows XP

Using Firefox 1.5.0.10 under Windows XP Professional SP2 on a Thinkpad T42 with a 1.7 Ghz Pentium M with 1.5 GB of RAM, the freebase interface is pretty slow. 5-10 second page rendering times are common, and it seems to get slower the longer the browser is open.That may be related to memory usage; after a few hours of energetic Freebase usage Firefox is using over 500 MB of RAM.

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