Firefox freezes after turning sync on

Hello
I have a strange problem that is driving me crazy for some time now (from firefox 5)
I am using firefox on two computers (pc and a mac(both windows and mac os)) which I guess makes 3 sync devices. I have a standard setup on all of those, no super fancy extensions. Only adblock, firegestures, scryptish and such and I've been using them for quite some time.
From firefox version 4 I decided to move from xmarks to firefox sync. Initially I had no problems but since version 5 something went wrong. All my firefox installations started to freeze for 2-3 seconds few times a minute. Clearing the profiles, reinstalations do nothing. Later on I found out that all this starts when I enable syncing. If I install all my stuff but leave sync off firefox works well. If I just turn it on freezes come back. I decided to delete my sync account and make a new one (was thinking about some corrupted preferences) and to be safe I synced only bookmarks,passwords and history. I left preferences unchecked. Obviously before doing that I cleared profiles on all my browers + did uninstall. After basically starting my firefox network from scratch everything was fine ... for a week. Now problem is back and I don't know what to do. Starting firefox in safe mode seems to help tho. Any ideas how to fix or debug this?
EDIT: Forgot to add that disabling sync doesn't help
Victor

The "solution" reported in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670064#c12 bug 670064 comment 12] was, <br>'''Quote:'''<br>''I then used the Clear Recent History feature to delete all of my history, and then i unticked the History option in Sync preferences. Since then, the problem has disappeared. I also have not been able to reproduce a lock-up on any version or machine that didn't involve history synching having been activated at some point or another ...''
My guess is that something was corrupting the browsing history (which is stored in the file'' places.sqlite'', along with bookmarks). If the problem resurfaces, I would try using the [[Clear Recent History]] feature to clear everything from browsing history and unsync History, as in the bug report comment (you could later re-sync History to see what happens). See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite#Corrupt_places.sqlite

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