Firefox constantly hangs, not responding extreamly slow loading is getting worse

firefox is continuosly hanging in every way posible, my OS is vista have the latest version of fire fox installed, but has been getting gradually worse and worse since approx May, it had done this before but not to the extent it does now. firefox updated/installed the latest version (at that time) about 2xupdates ago, this is when the problems first started.
EG, i will be scrolling down through a page on ebay and for no apparent reason firefox will just stop responding, same thing on you tube when watching videos or searching, also pages are taking a really long time to load sometimes resulting in them not loading at all or loading a blank page. this to has increased in how often this happens. Am seriously fed up with this problem its driving me crazy.
== firefox new version was installed

I'm having the same problem. I am running windows 7 64bit. FF is slow. painfully so. I've switched to Chrome and have no problems. FF just keeps getting worse it seems by the day.

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