I downloaded Maxthon geevee and can already see it's faster than ID or Firefox. So I'll keep it. Thanks for the tip!
You're welcome, NCE. If you go to View/Toolbars you can eliminate any extras it shows on the screen as default (I don't recall, Slimbrowser had 3, Maxthon may only have the links bar). I love SlimBrowser but it doesn't work that well with IE 8 and since I still have XP, Maxthon works better. I'll go back to SB once I upgrade my OS.

I have the siren bars, what happened to the pic?