Since installing firefox 3.6.17 recently, responses are slower and i am getting a "ton" of pop-up adds from mozilla, how do i correct this?

When i go to favorites or google for info and try to go to those sites. the loading of the site is slow. Doesn't matter if i have been there daily or a first look.
When i go to certain sites i get multiple pop-up ads (indicating mozilla firefox as website at top of pop-up) even tho pop-up blocker is turned on. How do i stop that?
Can i return to previous version of firefox?

Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or 3.6. See here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

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454 firefox 0.0 00:02.80 25 2 183 534 64M 47M 102M 120M 2894M 454 144 sleeping 1049
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I can post logs from Rember and Disk Utility if that would help.
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Application Basics
Name: Firefox
Version: 24.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
Extensions
Important Modified Preferences
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
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browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
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gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
plugin.importedState: true
plugin.state.silverlight: 0
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true
Graphics
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GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL
Vendor ID: 0x10de
WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OpenGL Engine
windowLayerManagerRemote: false
AzureCanvasBackend: quartz
AzureContentBackend: none
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none
JavaScript
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Accessibility
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Prevent Accessibility: 0
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NSPR
Expected minimum version: 4.10
Version in use: 4.10
NSS
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSSMIME
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Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSSSL
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
Version in use: 3.15.1 Basic ECC
NSSUTIL
Expected minimum version: 3.15.1
Version in use: 3.15.1

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