Facebook hangs on Firefox

For the last 5-6 releases of Firefox, Facebook runs very slow and hangs repeatedly during scrolling. I have AdBlock Plus installed (for several years now), I tried uninstalling it and tried without it, but there was no change. Other sites work just fine. No issues on Google Chrome.
My system is an AMD PhenomII X4 @ 3.4 GHz with 8GB of RAM, nVidia GTS250 512MB RAM video card, Windows 8.1 64 bit up to date and Firefox 36.0.4.

''guigs2 [[#answer-711458|said]]''
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It already looks like the drivers are up to date, however was there a difference if disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox from the Options > Advanced > General > uncheck: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
*[[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
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Thank you for your answer, but disabling the hardware acceleration didn't solve the problem, the browser still hangs and becomes unresponsive when using FB. Any more ideas?

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