Firefox 3.6.8 causes problem in Microsoft Outlook

I updated Firefox to version 3.6.8 a few days ago. Since then, when I start Microsoft Outlook (version 10), it aks if I want to open or save an html page file (a different one each time; these pages are always empty when I save or open one), prior that Outlook goes to my mail server. When I cancel the offer to save or open the page file, Outlooks then communicates with the mail server correctly. I removed Firefox and saw that Outlook works fine. I reinstalled Firefox 3.6.8, and noticed that the problem came back in Outlook.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== update to version 3.6.8 ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4

Solved my problem. I had installed a Persona (skin) that used animations. This seems to have been the problem.
What I did not appreciate is that when I disabled the Personas add-on, it did nothing to stop the behavior, and left the Persona intact.
After switching to another non-animated Persona, my cpu is back to 0%
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