Firefox always seems to just freeze (in regard to connectivity, not to program activity) all the time and hang on "connecting...." I will usually open IE to see if it is a connection problem, and IE works fine ("fine" being solely in regard to connectivity). I usually restart firefox and it is fine. I know this sounds like an easy fix if I have one tab open with google or something, but when I'm doing something online with multiple tabs open, or if I can't save what I'm doing first because it won't connect, it becomes more of a pain. I have never had this problem until firefox 7 (actually, everything after 3).

Is there a caching issue with the new firefox?? Is there a setting I need to adjust? I don't get it, it happens all the time. I'll be browsing the internet, then out of nowhere, it everything will just hang. Since it predominately happens when I open a few tabs quickly in concession, I thought it was just a bandwidth issue and it would take a little longer. But then I would stop all of the tabs but one, and that didn't help. Then I would stop ALL of the tabs, and just try to open google, and even that wouldn't open. Not until I restarted firefox. Normally, I would just think I overwhelmed firefox, but this has never happened until the latest versions of firfox. I could have near 20 tabs open in the old ones and the only issues I'd have would be bandwidth issues if I were trying to connect on too many tabs at the same time. Now it seems to completely crash firefox's connection.