I can confirm that it is a network problem.  I have a wired and a
wireless interface, but I am currently using wireless (eth1) and do not
have my wired (eth0) enabled.  As soon as I brought down eth1, both
firefox and brasero worked perfectly for me (and I just assumed
everything else would).  After reading Ralf's post more carefully, the
last line caught my attention when he said he could not "ping
localhost".  I tried that as well and it did not work.  I then
discovered that my loopback interface (lo) was not up for some reason.
I brought both eth1 and lo back up and now everything works for me.

This does make much more sense to me now as I can see why most of these
apps would need the lo interface to work and since it was disabled they
would freeze.  (I dont see why gedit or brasero would need it but I
guess they do for some reason).  The real question is now why my
loopback interface was disabled.  I dont ever remember disabling it
manually.  Thanks for the help Ralf.

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Firefox is extremely slow to respond; starts in about 4 min, gtk-damaged?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231384
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