Firefox 6 bug stalls on many sites

For some reason or another Firefox 6 while it looks great is actually acting very buggy. I use a hotmail account and it constant stalls there and on other sites forcing me to have to constantly refresh the screen in order to get it to open to the next page. Am I the only one this is happening to? I have uninstalled and reinstalled it several times and each time I do it also looks like some modification of improvement has been made to it. I am experiencing this on my windows 7 ultimate 64 bit acer desktop (which is where I have seen the modifications) as well as my emachine and other 32 bit xp professional desktops. It actually has me concerned as o whether or not it is stable enough to use for online banking due to all the stalling or freezing of pages. help

Same with my Windows Vista. I simply hit reload once or twice and the website works. When I go back to an earlier version of FF there is no such problem, but then the earlier version auto updates back to FF6 and the problem returns.
Lots of others reporting similar problems under "hang" and "freeze" complaints, but nothing new from Mozilla. Guess we just have to hope it gets fixed in FF7 - or move to Google Chrome/ Microsoft Internet Explorer if it is too disconcerting.

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