arguchik | Dear Lazyweb...WTF?

Can anyone out there explain why Yahoo mail keeps crashing Firefox on me today? I'm using a MacBook with the newest version of OS-X, fully updated and current (ditto Firefox), etc. As soon as I open the mail window--and only on Yahoo--I get the spinning rainbow ball, and it takes *forever* to load my inbox. Then I click on a message...again, spinning rainbow ball and a long wait. When I try to reply to a message, that's when all hell breaks loose and the program (Firefox) just stops responding. Oh, and yes...I tried switching back to Yahoo's "classic" mail and the same thing happened.

Is this just a temporary problem with Yahoo's mail servers--something everyone out there is probably experiencing--as

glaucon has surmised? Or is it potentially a problem with malware or some other crap like that having been loaded into my computer surreptitiously? I know Macs are widely considered to be mostly immune to such malevolent viral forces, but I figure it's only a matter of time, and now is as good of a time as any, ya know? I'm suspicious because this is happening on the heels a very noticeable uptick in Russian spam to my yahoo inbox, which started about a month ago. I get *tons* of it, and Yahoo's spam filter, which generally works really well, seems almost helpless against it.

Anyway. Any insights would be much appreciated.