Firefox 30 causing GSOD in OSX

Ever since updating to FireFox 30 a few days ago, I have been getting the GSOD in OSX Mavericks, 10.9.3.
It appears to be tied to running a Java applet from within FireFox, but it's not reproducible at will.
Not sure how FF and/or Java can take down OSX, but the first GSOD happened within 10 minutes of upgrading to FF 30, and it just happened this morning downloading software from IBM using their Java Download Director.
I had this problem previously and have since wiped the hard drive and completely reinstalled OSX and reinstalled my applications from scratch. It was fine for 3 weeks until FF 30 came along, now it's doing the GSOD with alarming frequency and seems to be tied to FF usage again.
This is on a late 2013 15" MBPr, 16GB/500GB SSD. The computer passes all Apple diagnostics, survives Prime95, and a few hours of running Memtest86 so I don't think this is a hardware problem. I have no add-ons or extensions loaded into Firefox either.
Seems similar to this problem:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/999218

Yep, Flash and Java are up to date. Java 7 Update 60. Flash 14.0.0.125
Even so, I'm kinda peeved that a browser can cause a GSOD. I haven't had a BSOD on any of my Windows boxes in years, and getting these recurrent GSOD's on OSX is annoying.
Hopefully FF or Java fix whatever the (#&$!! is causing this soon!

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