Firefox took more than 15 minutes to open a new window

Hi all,
I'm now with the last version of firefox 3.6 and it took more than 15 minutes to open a new window. But, i'm not having the problem to open a new tab. I don't know why?
I'm on window XP, antivirus: avast familly.
Thanks for your answer.

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