finally, my misery finds company.

ditto - laptop running vista home premium

but unlike many, i never need to reboot. i just close down the browser entirely and restart it, or switch from ie to firefox (or vice versa), until neither works, then i restart one of them.

this has been going on for months, but it seems to have gradually gotten worse (browser connection fails more quickly). i was really hoping SP1 would do the trick, but no such luck.

many people here complain about avast, but i run AVG free (just upgraded to 8.0) and have the problem.
and i don't have ICS turned on, so that isn't the problem either.

thinking of calling microsoft to harass them about this. the more of us who do, the more likely it will be taken seriously (maybe?).