Firefox stops working (it's not hanging) on restore, have to use Force Quit to end and restart.

Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 8.0 up to date.
I installed the 8.0 update. When I re-open the laptop and everything works except Firefox. It doesn't respond at all. I have to Force Quit Firefox then re-open and get the "embarrassing" window, close that, and then I can use it again.
Need this fixed or I won't be using Firefox anymore.

I have had to force quit PP CC four times today. The fourth was when it crashed while trying to reopen it. I have had exactly the same problems as described above. I have no solutions to offer. I will go through a week of constant Premiere Pro bugs and poor performance then experience a period that seems too good to be true only to end up having a day like today. I can't believe that they call this a professional editing suite. It just wastes so much of my time pissing around trying to fix things and managing all the extra render and preview files it makes each time I have to save a new copy of a project which usually results in renaming it. It gets confusing after a while. Really not happy with this and have begun to learn Avid so as soon as this project is done, PP will be history.

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