IGOOGLE performance SUCKS!

I also have the same problem as many. I have firefox 3.0+, XP, etc. Igoogle loads extremely slow. It actually never stops loading! Widgets come up very slow and my gmail widget takes at least 5 min. to load! Every time I leave and come back to my igoogle tab all the widgets start reloading.... again gmail takes another five minutes and that's IF it comes on. The loading 'swirl' on the igoogle tab NEVER STOPS!
Why is Google not responding to this serious problem? Why do they not at least give google users a statement of confidence that it is being addressed with a 'fix time line'?