Firefox becomes semi-unresponsive and freezes when a tab is dragged out to make it a new window.

Basically I may have 10 or so tabs open and wish to drag one of them out of the tab bar to make it form a new window. However when I do this it takes a second or two before the new window appears, and when it does it is semi-unresponsive.
I cannot exit it as when I hover over the red "x" nothing happens and I can't click it. I can't switch between firefox windows properly (it just keeps freezing). I usually end up killing firefox.exe in task manager.
My list of addons are:
2007 Microsoft Office System 12.0.4518.1014
Adobe Acrobat 10.1.0.534
Google Update 1.3.21.57
iTunes Application Detector 1.0.1.1
Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin 1.0.0.8
Pando Web Plugin 1.0.0.1
QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.9 7.6.9.0
Shockwave Flash 10.3.181.26
I have also done the common and fast computer, fast connection tweaks on this website:
http://codebetter.com/darrellnorton/2005/01/28/speeding-up-firefox-the-right-way/
Thanks in advance for your help!

That is the default action when you open a new tab. There are extensions that you can install to change it from a blank page to whatever you want.
New Tab Homepage extension: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777 
and 
NewTabURL extension: 
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2221/

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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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