Mozilla crash with gmail

I have SuSE 9.1 with the latest YOU (which added a security patch for Mozilla 1.7). I just got a gmail (Google mail) account, and to my dismay, mozilla crashes immediately upon logging in to gmail (just after it displays "Loading..."). Gmail does not support (nor work with) opera or konqueror, so I am stuck. Anyone encounter this problem? Known fixes or workaround? -Ti