Firefox freezes entire system then everything resumes running again

As above.Started occurring since v20 came out.Seems like many people have this error.
Reverted to v19.Problems occurs as well.
Tried everything ( starting FF in safe mode , creating a new profile, resetting FF, uninstalling and a fresh install, booting in safe mode Windows). Nothing seems to work.
It freezes again and again only to resume normal service only to freeze again. On and on and on. Really frustrating.
Can someone point to me if this FF's problem or is there a problem with my system itself?
My system doesn't seem to freeze when FF isn't running though.

I've been having the same issues as others. It runs up high % of CPU, a couple GIGS of RAM, and oddly, it runs up my "Inactive memory", two or three times what any other browser does, up to almost 4 GIGS! So it runs down my total RAM availability, as well. It runs slow, freezes, even will freeze when I simply try closing it, requiring a force quit, then when I re-open it LOSES all my previous session, so I have to hunt all over the place to try and manually, laboriously reconstruct it, because for some odd, very frustrating reason, it doesn't show all the pages in HISTORY, when it does work, and open them, unlike every other browser, which makes zero sense to me.
I am obviously very unhappy & frustrated with the totally lousy performance of version 22, and will end up having to use Chrome or Safari....

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EXPLANATION
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This problem was also affecting Apple Mail because it uses Safari/WebKit to preview HTML in the messages.
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