Outlook Express or Firefox hangs when opening a link from OE

When opening a link in OE6 emails, Firefox 6 takes eons to finally come up if it does not hang OE in the end. It makes no difference if Firefox is already open or if it needs to launch. Any idea what is going on. This is a new problem in the last few weeks.

This sounds like the same problem we're discussing here.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/984193#answer-525489

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