two questions about my laptop and firewall

Got a new HP Pavillion zv6000, which comes with the nifty little scrolling bar in the touchpad area so you can scroll the page just as if it were a wheel on a mouse...but when I installed Firefox...I noticed that the scrolling bar doesn't work in firefox!! It is fine in Explorer, but not in firefox!! So I was curious if there is a setting that i can't find in firefox, or the mouse utility, or is it simply not supported?? Even when you click somewhere on the screen it still won't scroll!! in explorer you don't even have to click on the page to engage it..it just automaticall works!!

Also...I uninstalled the free norton that came with the computer (since the free subscription expired in 3 months anyway) and installed AVG and Sygate Personal Firewall because it is free and it doesn't seem to hog as many resources as norton!! However...i've noticed that my download speed and my browsing speed has drastically reduced!! For example...I went from a download speed of 120-150 on average, to about 15- 25!!! Yes...that much difference!! And when i browse...it takes a few seconds for the page to completely load, whereas before, the exact same page loaded relatively instantaneous!! I am behind a Linksys wireless router with a hardware firewall, but that didn't seem to matter when i had the norton firewall on here!!

Any ideas anybody!!

Roger

 

Stupid me...I guess I should have put this in the software forum, huh!!??

I'll post it over there too!! LOL

Roger