Firefox 5.0.1 hangs with mac os x 10.6.8

Ever since the lastest update to firefox 5 (and 6) for mac, I'm finding that FF is often hanging when scrolling or typing. I have tried booting into safe mode and I have tried disabling all my add-0ns but it is still hanging. My other browsers are not experiencing this problem.
Can anyone recommend a solution?
Thanks

Thanks. This corrected the flash problem. Now Google street view works properly.
I've installed every Firefox update pushed to my Mac by Apple,
so I'm curious why my version of Firefox was so old.

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