Firefox hangs/stalls on right-click

Ever since my system updated Firefox to 3.6 Namoroka I have had problems with right-clicking, firefox will hang and become un-responisive for 5-15 seconds on any right-click.
Furthermore I have re-installed and disabled all add-ons in an attempt to resolve the issue, the problem is also not present on my 32bit version of Arch but only on my 64bit system, which has ample resources to run firefox.
I am mostly curious if anyone else has experienced this issue.
thanks

I've got a similar problem here, maybe it's the same problem
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=736219

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