...to abandoning FF for Chrome. FF6 had a habit of spiking my CPU every time a page with an embedded Flash object was loaded... To the point where, even *after* Firefox was closed, the CPU remained pegged at 100% for prolonged periods of time, often until I gave up and rebooted.

Now, that was on my work laptop, which I just had re-imaged, so I'm going to give FF7 the old college try. But it's on notice.