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I didn't say it slow. It is indeed fast. Thank you for that!

Until suddenly the show stops and I have to kill it via Taskmgr to inject new life into it due to memory suffocation.

Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you could go to about:memory, save the reports, and file a bug with them attached:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox

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