With my desktop pc with XP and Firefox .... when I check the active programs (as shown in the bar to the left of the time icon) I often see that I have 6 or7 sessions of Firefox running. Is that normal?

Am I wastefully using CPU resources for each of the 6 or 7 sessions? Could this be the reason I frequently get sluggish response and erratic behavior, requiring me to Restart?

As I surf the internet, when I see a link of interest in a URL and I click it ... does that action open a new FF? I didn’t think it did; am I wrong? Why else do I see so many FF’s open?

Confused, obviously. Would appreciate an explanation. ... wdc