Firefox 3.6.6 Mac Tabs Unresponsive & Incomplete Page Loads

Ever since the 3.6.6 upgrade for Mac, running under OSX 10.6.4, my tabs load, but then I cannot select any of the "buried" tabs the mouse. The top tab "page load thermometer" at the bottom left of the status bar never completes to the point where it says "Done," despite the page being fully loaded and active. (The bar remains, showing about a 98% load....)
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I upgraded to FF 3.6.6 Mac

This must be the crappiest upgrade to Firefox. It's totally worthless. I'm currently now using Safari because of it because I don't want to bother with reloading a previous version of Firefox.

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== This happened ==
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_*The Computers:*_
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