OS 10.7.2, FF 7.0.1 | 30 second Pinwheel every 5-10 minutes of browsing.

Please help... this is a recent development and I have disabled all add-ons that are not recognized or up to date. This did not start happening until I upgraded to Lion OS.
There is no rhyme or reason to it happening - nothing consistent between occurrences. Once the pinwheel appears, I have to either ride it out for 30+ seconds or force-quit Firefox.
Not sure if it has anything to do with it, but I checked the system logs in Console and found the following entries:
11/3/11 7:48:59.976 PM firefox: -_continuousScroll is deprecated for NSScrollWheel. Please use -hasPreciseScrollingDeltas.
11/3/11 7:48:59.977 PM firefox: -deviceDeltaY is deprecated for NSScrollWheel. Please use -scrollingDeltaY.
11/3/11 7:48:59.977 PM firefox: -_scrollPhase is deprecated for NSScrollWheel. Please use -momentumPhase.
11/3/11 7:48:59.977 PM firefox: -deviceDeltaX is deprecated for NSScrollWheel. Please use -scrollingDeltaX.
Each of these appeared at approximately the same time as the lock up.

This looks good, run the add-on and then you uninstall it all without bringing down Firefox. Improves health of the places database.
"We've identified a bug that may cause, under certain circumstances, periodic freezes of the Firefox UI, in terms of a short freeze every about 9 minutes. This only affects a small amount of users, so, if you don't notice this behavior, you can stop reading."
http://blog.bonardo.net/2011/09/30/is-your-firefor-freezing-at-regular-intervals

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