I like the fact that the F1 help in Visual Studio 2005 uses online help so I don't have to install that whole huge library, and it can be updated without me installing it all over again.

But why is it so incredibly slow to open? I press F1, and first it takes a good while for the window to appear, and then it takes what seems like forever to locate the page. And in the meantime there is no indication to whether it has found the correct page, so I might end up getting help on something irrelevant.

It's actually a lot faster to just google whatever I'm looking for, even though I'm still ending up on the same msdn2.microsoft.com site. And that's a shame, because F1 is actually very useful as it can locate the help pages by the context I'm in. But I'm just ending up not using it anymore.