Comment 284 for bug 113201

Perhaps I am in the wrong place, but I will give it a try. For at least the next two months, I will be using this computer, which is now seven years old. I am currently running Win 7 and not experiencing any problems that I am aware of at this time. My ISP, Wild Blue, suggested that to improve the speed of my internet access, to use Firefox. I have been using Internet Explorer since the beginning of my computer experience. I was not satisfied and a little unhappy with IE 8, so I readily switched to FireFox. The problem I have experienced, and continue to experience, occurs when I open a new tab or click on a link. It looks asa if it is going to do the requested action. After several seconds, the progress bar has no indication that it has beun to load the page, or it may show progress then stop. After a long period of time, a minute or more, I can "Stop" the procedure and then select the same thing again and it usually will quickly respond with the request. In my settings, I am using an Auto-configuration proxy URL supplied by my ISP. Would it be better to "Auto detect" the settings? This is quite frustrating.