Firefox has been giving me the beach ball

[mcmillan]

I think it started after 10.4.7, not sure. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.4.

Every few minutes I get the spinning ball, it usually ends after 20 seconds or so, but it's really annoying.

Anyone else with this problem?

[susitres]

Hi,
firefox (3.0.3) on mac (10.5.2) it's giving me the same problem. It's really annoying. Anyone knows how to solve it?
Thanks in advance