Pinwheel when trying to close safari/firefox after playing video

i've only noticed this on the nytimes.com website after playing their video content (youtube works fine). in both firefox and safari: every single time i play a video, if i pause it or stop it and then try to close the tab it is in or the application, i get the pinwheel and no matter how long i wait for it, it does not come back so i force quit. i've tried updating/reinstalling, but nothing seems to work. also episodes/shows via abc.com do not play at all - tried reinstalling/updating those plugins/apps as well. this is happening on both macbook pro and macbook with updated versions of leopard... thoughts?

This seemed to come out of the blue, very much as described by anima42. I also am a Ubuntu 10.04 user. I have pondered on the first reply above, and though I don't, and didn't, use Tabberwocky, I was using Tab Mix Plus. Having removed this, the problem seems to have gone away. Another possible clue as to what went wrong: I use a constant Firefox profile located in my home directory. I dabbled with Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so ago, which runs (I think) a more updated Firefox. This Firefox was operating on my default profile, as you would. It may have broken something so it now doesn't play nicely with the 10.04 setup. Just surmising.

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