Why does Firefox 8 hang every time I put my Mac to sleep?

I recently switched to Firefox 8 on Mac OS v10.6.8. If I put my laptop to sleep with Firefox running, when I open the computer again Firefox hangs. It's unresponsive to any mouseclicks or keystrokes.
I can force-quit Firefox and reopen it again, but it's annoying. I'm running on a new Macbook Pro, 2.3 GHz Intel core i7 with 8 GB RAM.

The work offline thing doesn't help.
There's a possibly related tab issue--sometimes if you push ctrl+t to open a new tab after waking from sleep mode, it'll open a blank tab and let you type in the URL bar, but it won't actually show a new tab in your tab bar. It's like a phantom tab or something. If you try to switch tabs, that's when it hangs. It also doesn't load the page fully, especially if there's flash content.
Other times, you can't even open a new "phantom tab", it won't accept any keystrokes. It seems that if you wait a couple minutes after waking from sleep and don't click anything Firefox is more likely to respond to keystrokes.
I haven't ever seen Firefox 8 behave normally after waking from sleep mode, no matter how long I wait. Firefox 7 was fine.

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