I am not finding the site slow at all. Page uploads and viewing images has never been a problem for me whether I am in firefox or explorer.
I have started using firefox recently and last night I uploaded an image, but it has not appeared in the gallery. I have not received an e-mail notification to say whether my image has been accepted or not. One thing I did notice though, was that when I was uploading the image I had to type in the full name of the subject including the scientific name. In explorer, when I begin to type in the name a drop down appears and I can just click on that. This has happened before with another image which I uploaded whilst in firefox and it failed to appear but I uploaded it again in explorer and there wasn't a problem. I forgot about this last night and will try to upload again in explorer.
One more thing, I can use smilies in firefox but not in IE7 but I was able to use smilies in IE 6. Very strange
Barbara