FireFox 4 is Slow

I don’t use firefox all that much but I do use it when i need to use one of the many plugins avaialble for it (my biggest beef with ie- make it pluggable already).

Popped it up the other day and what’s this, version 4 is out. Sounds great, let’s upgrade.

I have a really powerful laptop, and it is just amazing to me how incredibly slow firefox has become. Opening a new instance takes.. I don’t know, I usually forget I was opening it and go on to something else, only to be surprised when it suddenly appears.

What happened to the small nimble browswer that was kicking ms’s bootay years ago?

Can we go back to FF 1 or 2?