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Latest builds of Chromium for Mac tempt me to Make Chromium My Default Browser

In addition to fast browsing, it now offers dev level Chromium Extensions.

To use Gmail, I have to run it in Safari. It simply grinds to a halt in Firefox 3.0.5 with persistent loading messages and menus that refuse to work.

It won't even load in the latest build of WebKit 3.2.1, though I can understand that.

Could there be any issues with my installed extensions listed below?

I would love to get back to running a single browser, if possible.

Browser details...

Generated: Sun Feb 01 2009 20:24:38 GMT+1100 (EST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5 GTB5
Build ID: 2008120121
Enabled Extensions: [27]

• + Aardvark 2.97 - http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
• + BBCode 0.5.2.4 - http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/#bbcode
• + Card Games - 0.98 - http://cardgames.mozdev.org/
• + ColorZilla 1.9 - http://www.colorzilla.com/
• + Copy URL + 1.3.2 - http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/
• + DOM Inspector 2.0.1 - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/
• + English (Australian) Dictionary 2.1.1 - http://justcameron.com/incoming/en-au-dictionary/
• + Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X 1.0.1 - http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf
• + FireFTP 1.0.3 - http://fireftp.mozdev.org
• + Gmail Manager 0.5.5 - http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
• + Google Desktop Search 1.1 - http://desktop.google.com/
• + Google Gears 0.5.4.2 - http://gears.google.com/
• + Google Toolbar for Firefox 5.0.20090122Mb2 - http://www.google.com/
• + GridFox 1.1 - http://www.puidokas.com
• + Html Validator 0.8.4.1 - http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
• + Inline Code Finder 0.88 - http://www.robertnyman.com/inline-code-finder
• + MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.3.1 - http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/
• + Paste and Go 2 0.8 - http://pasteandgo2.mozdev.org/
• + Pencil 1.0.4 - http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/
• + PopupMaster 1.2.2 - http://yellow5.us/firefox/pm/
• + QuickNote 0.6.0.4 - http://quicknote.mozdev.org/
• + QuoteURLText 1.0.8 - http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20QuoteURLText
• + Stylish 0.5.8 - http://userstyles.org/stylish/
• + TimesPeople Beta Build 0.2.2b - http://timespeople.nytimes.com/packages/addons/timespeople/
• + TwitterFox 1.7.4 - http://www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox
• + User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 - http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
• + Web Developer 1.1.6 - http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Update 1: It may be an Extension issue.

I got my arse into gear and switched off all the extensions in alphabetical order.
It seems as though Cards Games doesn't like Gmail, well so far.!!

Update 2: Fuck it. Gmail still stuffs up. I've decided to totally delete Firefox, profiles, extensions etc etc and downloaded a new version and will see what happens.

Update 3: Well, I AppZapped Firefox 3 and started from scratch.

Everything works like a charm, including Gmail.