Nothing will load unless I move the mouse or type.

Ive used Firefox for quite a long time with no problems, upon updating last week to Firefox 4 Ive been encountering a pretty annoying problem.
After having Firefox open for anywhere from 5 - 30 minutes a problem will arise that pages, images, gifs, video, anything will not load unless i move the mouse or type. Its literally as if a pause button is hit and even the little animated loading icon on page tabs will freeze up and only animate if I move the mouse/type.
So far I have:
-Uninstalled/Reinstalled
-Updated/Removed Addons
-Ran in Safe Mode
Nothing has worked so far, even all the searching has only come up with tons more people with this problem and no solid answers.

It's a plugin. I disabled everything I didn't use, and it went away.

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Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a ''Clean reinstall''. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
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