Pop up windows don't open or have a very long delay-why?

When i visit certain websites and I click on a link that would open another window it often doesn't open. Sometimes I will come back to my Mac 30 mins later to find that they have all opened. Some sort of delayed reaction that can take 10's of minutes.
Sites where i have experienced this today are http://www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com/ then trying to click onto course availability. Also http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=6256674 when i try to click on map nothing comes up. There are other websites where I have the same type of difficulties.
If i transfer over to Safari everything is OK. This problem also didn't used to be an issue when I was running Leopard OS I'm now running latest Snow Leopard.
Does anyone have any ideas or is it just that Firefox is very buggy with OSX 10.6 ?
Thanks
Symon
== URL of affected sites ==
http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=6256674

I tried on http://www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com/ with Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS 10.6 and it works fine.
Try going through these steps: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes , extensions/themes/plugins may considerably slow down Firefox.
Some additional questions that may help track down the problem:
- does this always happen when opening a new window (e.g. using File -> New Window)
- when popups on some sites open slower, do popups on other sites still open fast?
- do popups generally open slow or does it get slower the longer you use Firefox without quitting it?

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