I tried IE8 a couple of times recently and found it to be sluggish on my XP-Pro machine and uninstalled it each time [and yet IE8 runs fast on my Vista laptop!?!],then I tried IE8 for a third time today and googled "Speed up IE8" just to see what tips were available on the net .... I found these two tips on here http://www.110words.com/882/how-fix-bro ... xplorer-8/ and applied them and now IE8 is running just like Firefox is ..... FAST!!
"Third time lucky" as we say in the UK!!
.... and for FIREFOX, try these http://www.tonyspencer.com/2005/02/25/s ... se-tweaks/ .... they really work!!

Thanks for the tip .. made a noticeable difference.

I edited the above post to add the FF tweaks too!

And thanks again ... for the FF Tweak

jpbrogan - To be honest, I didn't think FF could go any faster [as it was fast from when I first installed it!] ..... but the above tweaks definitely gave FF a very "noticeable" speed up!

Interesting heads-up here. FF already feels faster than usual.