Hi Alex; I don't know if you saw my comment or not.
I tried digg.com out with the same version of FF out on my windows xp box at work. I did not get any slowness, nor did I get any interruption in other programs while browsing digg.com. There is something in the FF & Ubuntu combination. -- Digg.com slows down the browser https://launchpad.net/bugs/81858 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs