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ff stalls out when opening new tabs, using 100% cpu on mac

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went to leave this in the feedback section but that doesnt work either, nothing gets sent. but anyways, new tabs always feeze or stall for over a min, using 100% cpu. running mac 10.6.8. never had problem on earlier versions of ff but ff5 is broken im sorry to say on macs. please advise or fix, more and more people are experiencing this same issue but nothing is being done to resolve.

went to leave this in the feedback section but that doesnt work either, nothing gets sent. but anyways, new tabs always feeze or stall for over a min, using 100% cpu. running mac 10.6.8. never had problem on earlier versions of ff but ff5 is broken im sorry to say on macs. please advise or fix, more and more people are experiencing this same issue but nothing is being done to resolve.

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Computer memory / performance issues. Do a clean-up. Add RAM. Switch to better performance from better appearance. Etc.

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16gb aint enough lol> imac 27 , top of line, ssd hdd, 16gb ram, all updates, if memory was bad it would happen on other browsers or apps, only happens when you specifically open a new tab.