Maybe try stopping nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon) in services, you don't need it if you don't run your own DNS. Mozilla runs fine for me here.
Thanks zentara for this tip but unfortunatley it didn't solve it.:-( However, I found out a few more things while investigating this. When I do the search without the "", it works fine but when I do the search with the "", then all h*e*double hocky sticks breaks loose! By using the ps command, I see the instances of Mozilla reaching about 80% memory usage but then it starts dropping. While the memory is dropping, the swap is starting to fill up! I saw that through gkrellm. Boy it looks like that I have a weird one here. 8-( Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."