Why is Firefox 3.6.3 the most unstable browser available?

Firefox 3.6.3 freezes, hangs, crashes, won't terminate, won't delete the stupid parental file when it crashes, I have to use Task Manager to manually close FF before re-attempting. I had less problems with a dial-up connection at 28.8 baud than this! It's practically unusable, and it this continues, myself and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Mozilla enthusiasts will cease to be so, abandoning Mozilla's products. After all, the recent changes to Thunderbird are the worst changes EVER made, virtually wiping out entire e-mail accounts and all of the e-mails contained in them with the stupid IMAP problems and not clearing mail servers. Let me know when Mozilla is dead, it's heading there very quickly. Actually, don't bother, I probably won't care anymore by then.

I have firefox 3.6.10 and I dont intend to make any updates due to instability of navigation.
When I make a search using Google site about 40% of the pages make Firefox crash and overturn.
To minimize the crash I disable all plug-ins, but it not works always.
Currently I use Firefox only for a few known sites, like webmail and forum dicussion groups, mainly due to facility of iMacros automation.
For research I used only Google Chrome that never does crash.
I also replaced the abandoned Compooser by the free KompoZer (with the same user interface) to maintain and update my sites.
My condolences to the Mozilla family ...
:-(

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