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Typing in Google Apps (Mail, Documents) causes Firefox to hang/become unresponsive

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Whenever I start composing an email in my GoogleApps/Gmail, Firefox becomes unresponsive after a few lines - I start typing, and within a line or so, it increasingly lags and finally stops responding.

I've tried everything - restarting, clearing prefs, safemode, a complete re-install of Firefox... yet nothing seems to make the problem go away. Right now I'm resorting to typing responses in notepad then copying them into Gmail (which works).

The problem has spread so not it's not only Gmail, it seems like it's affecting other text-entry fields on other pages. The same thing occured when I started composing this question in the firefox help section.

I'd appreciate any help!

Thanks, Lisa

URL of affected sites

http://www.gmail.com

Whenever I start composing an email in my GoogleApps/Gmail, Firefox becomes unresponsive after a few lines - I start typing, and within a line or so, it increasingly lags and finally stops responding. I've tried everything - restarting, clearing prefs, safemode, a complete re-install of Firefox... yet nothing seems to make the problem go away. Right now I'm resorting to typing responses in notepad then copying them into Gmail (which works). The problem has spread so not it's not only Gmail, it seems like it's affecting other text-entry fields on other pages. The same thing occured when I started composing this question in the firefox help section. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks, Lisa == URL of affected sites == http://www.gmail.com

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I am on RHEL 5 and I face the same problem in firefox 3.6.8 as well as 4.0 beta Site gmail.google.com

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same here I'm on Ubuntu 10.04. I have been facing same problem I have disabled all greasemonkey scripts. but nothing happens

Please get it solved

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