On 2007.03.09 23:42:29 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> Probably just your machine. I have

Ah, thanks for that.  I'd been meaning to rebuild firefox, and did
so, and the problems have disappeared. 

Bizarre symptoms -- it affected all applications on the system.
I had a compile in the background that would freeze for the same
duration of time, as did a CVS update.

Brian.

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