internet loading pages

[yesterday]

my download speeds are very high and  according to speedtest.net my download speed is 4557kb/s. this is very good but my web pages take a while to load. i am using Mozilla Firefox and i have win xp. what can i do to make my web pages load faster? should i use this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

thanks for any help.

[soybean]

How about some hardware specs?  CPU, RAM, how much free space on hard drive?

How often do you clear your browser history? 

What protections are you using for viruses and spyware?  Are you running a firewall?  Which one?

[yesterday]

i have 256mb of ram which i know is poor. i have 129gb free space on my hard drive. i have windows firewall and i have avg anti virus and i also have spyware terminator.

i have just cleared my history yet there is no affect.

thanks for your help so far.

[Zylstra]

You may want to download Ccleaner to clean your registry...
Please see:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,20157.html

Also: Just because you have fast internet, doesent mean that the webpage you are viewing comes from a fast server.
Is this happening on only one website?

Be sure to close FireFox before running Ccleaner, it cannot clear the FireFox Cache file without it being closed.
Ccleaner will work with both FireFox and Internet Explorer, Windows Disk Cleanup only works with Internet Explorer (Some one want to confirm that last comment?).