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Trouble:
This time, for a change, I want to share a problem I am myself facing for last couple of days. Firefox starts to hang whenever I open Gmail Inbox. It is really a pain when I am so addicted to Gmail and Firefox both. The strange thing is that Microsoft Internet Explorer is working comparatively better with Gmail.
See the Snapshot below, whenever I click on Inbox, the CPU usage shoots to 100 % and Memory usage is already higher than normal.
Lets see the work-around to save ourselves from such hangs.
Fix:
As per the information I gathered, this may be due to some compatibility or programming level issue with Gmail, which Google might have implemented. Also Firefox 2.0.0.13 has been recently released. But the problem is unlikely due to newer version of Firefox as many users are facing such problems even with older version of Firefox.
There is no straight way in which an end user like you or me can fix it. So the way out is not to use Gmail with Firefox for some time till either Firefox or Gmail changes their applications to run with each other well. Use Gmail in Microsoft Internet Explorer or Opera browser etc.
So Mozilla and Google techies, I am sure you must be working hard to resolve the issues.
For rest of us, we are waiting for updates in Gmail or Firefox.
Update:
Till the time Google guys or Firefox developers do some thing one of the reader amanda suggested a very simple solution which solves the problem, the solution is to clear the browser cache by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del.
Thanks Amanda 
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Hey,
Well i have the same problem and gmail hands in both internet explorer as well as firefox…In IE i cannot change my tabs once m in gmail and in firefox, i cant close it.
Well see i think it should be because of add ons. Go to tools > Add-ons > check both plug ins and extensions. For me i had to disable the google talk plugin.
Thank you,
hope it helped !
Clearing cache help temporarily,I was able to get to my G-Mail account,but after login out and login into another G-Mail account,I encounter the same problem.
Seems that clearing cache is temporary solution at best
switch to older version for time being….none of the below helps
clearing cache
basic html
I, too, wonder if this isn’t Google acting like MS to get us to switch to Chrome. I’m running FF 3.0.7 and gmail still hangs quite often at the very end of its initial load.
Even im troubled with firefox hanging when using gmail…i click on a mail and it keeps frozen at loading for a long time….i compose and try to send a mail and its “working” for some time…and “still working” for long long time!
Even i had the same feeling..i google trying to make us use chrome? cause trying chrome seemed like the only answer i could come up with given that i hate using IE…
Pavan
Disabling Google Talk Plugin worked for me also.Thanks.
thanks! saved my day
I have same problem :win7 home prem latest firefox ..gmail hangs or fail after ‘ inbox.’.(going to ‘compose mail ‘screen goes ..back to desktop .)
Fixed by changing Gmail to use IE 7 (found IE 8 another problem!)
(Rt click gmail indicator. change there)
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