Temporary Hand Tool is not working when Firefox is open

Hi guys
Hopefully some of you can help me with a problem that has annoyed me for quite some time now..
Quite often my temporary hand tool (accessed by pressing the space bar) is not working which causes me to move objects instead of panning around my Photoshop canvas. I don't know what causes it, but when I shut down my browser (Firefox 3.6.19) everything returns to normal in Photoshop and I can pan around the canvas again using the hand tool by pressing the spacebar shortcut.
When I open reopen Firefox I can use the space bar short cut but only for a few minutes and the problem occurs again. The regular hand tool (accessed by pressing H) is working fine all the time.
This is a shortcut that I use so very much and would really like to know how to fix this issue.
I'm using Photoshop CS5 and Mac OS X 10.6.8
Aske

So Firefox or something loaded in Firefox is eating key events.
You need to start troubleshooting Firefox. The first step would be to disable add-ons in Firefox. Also let the Mozilla folks know that Firefox is causing this (I believe they've had similar bugs before).

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