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Until then you could try using Swiftfox which seems much faster than the stock browser.

Umm... GNU IceCat or Debian IceWeasel? Maybe Swiftfox or just compile a rebrand.

Not that I don't think this is stupid. But there are ways around this.

What about Swiftfox? I've been using it over regular Firefox for quite some time now.

There are alternate builds. pigfoot - Swiftfox - one for the Mac. I am sure there has to be one somewhere which fits your requirements. Problem is finding it.

I'm surprised at the number of people with stability problems. I tried 3.0a1 and I had instant crashes in AJAX web apps, so I decided to wait until b1 which turned out to be a good decision, because it was much more stable. Each beta has been increasingly better. I still get a couple crashes here and there but I am betting it's due to Flash or an add-on I'm using.

On Linux I use Swiftfox, which is a recompiled Firefox optimized for individual processors so it can be even a little faster than Firefox 3. Only problem is they occasionally push out a nightly build over their update package source thingy (I tend to prefer the public beta releases) but nothing that has been unstable yet.

If you're having stability problems, you really have no right to complain until you at least TRY to fix it since Firefox gives you the tools to do so. To use another car analogy, it's like complaining your car doesn't slow down fast enough so you need a different one but you haven't even tried using the brakes yet. Well not exactly but I needed to use a car analogy. Anyways here's some things you should try:

1. Try running Firefox in safe-mode. If the problem goes away it's very likely a bad extension.
2. Try making a new, temporary profile. If the problem goes away it might be easy to fix by migrating individual files over and skipping the one that causes the problem. Also this helps to clear out old FF2 files you don't need anymore (especially if you can figure out what the files are, not hard to do since they're mostly well named).
3. If the problem occurs on pages which utilize a specific plugin try disabling the plugin... about:plugins can help you locate the dll to temporarily move it somewhere else to disable it (Firefox won't let you follow about: links so copy/paste the url). If it's a plugin you can't live without try seeing if there's updates for it.
4. Google Gears instantly crashes FF3 if sites try to use it (in b5 at least). Disable it until it gets an update.
5. Silverlight doesn't support FF3 yet and just refuses to run at all. MS is supposedly working on it.
6. Some people have reported weird slow-loading problems. I had that problem as well and traced it to the Firebug extension, or perhaps the Firecookie one... the problem is sporadic so it's difficult. However a Firebug update recently seemed to fix it. You can try disabling it if you have problems.

If you still have problems it's likely a problem with Firefox, in which case I suppose you could complain, but it would be more productive to file a bug report to increase the chances of it being fixed. To quote GLaDOS, "Thank you for helping us help you help us all."

not official firefox but you might get interested in http://www.getswiftfox.com/deb.htm this guy keep fairly update it (if you haven't heard it before of course )

: For example, I still didn't find any place that offers a .deb of the new Firefox Beta 3. Anyone willing to point me to one?

Get Swiftfox!

Get Swiftfox!

Seeing how awfully slow firefox was on FC5, seeing how awfully late the updates came for it... I switched to Swiftfox, which is an optimized build of firefox... it also has a better logo :p

It's unbearably painful, if not impossible, to install Flash on a pure AMD64 Linux system (that is, exclusively 64-bit apps and libraries.)

I've got a present for you: A Firefox build that will work with Flash and Java on an AMD64 system. Download Swiftfox, the one compiled for Athlon 64. It says the compile is 32-bit, but it runs well on my pure AMD64 Ubuntu 6.06 system (with no chroot environment). Then go to a site with flash, and allow it to install the flash player.

A couple of caveats:
1) The flash plugin will crash the native Firefox if it tries to use it. It's installed somewhere in your home directory, you should delete it if you're going back to FF.
2) You can't run FF and Swiftfox at the same time. You must close all windows of one before opening the other.

Have fun.

Don't forget, you can get a processor optimized verison at http://getswiftfox.com/