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I haven't had any crashes although I've been mostly been using my regular profile as of late so things are already set so unless I go someplace new...
However, I switched to my beta testing profile to see if I could find a site to try and crash the browser.
I didn't have any luck with the catalog site or oprah.com.
However, and I don't know if I should file a separate bug or keep it here.
When you get a multitude of popup boxes for the cookies. It will appear you are stuck and you can't clear them anymore. I finally investigated it today and findings were a little funny. I knew that you had to clear what appears to be older popup boxes (were under the box that you were stuck on). I thought it had to be for the same domain to clear it. It wasn't.
I tested at cnn.com. I uploaded a screenshot of the cookie prompt boxes from where it got 'stuck' when I was clearing them out. See 'Cookie Prompt Stuck'
#1 is the prompt I was stuck at that refused to clear out no matter what button I pressed or trying to close it. It just stayed there. Each subsequent box underneath is numbered sequentially (2,3...).
At #4 or #6 was when I was able to clear out #1. I initially thought I had to clear out previous boxes with the same domain, but 4 and 6 are ads.cnn.com as you can see. After clearing #2 and #3, I still was NOT able to get rid of that box. Because I thought it was an issue with the domain name as noted, I didn't check beyond that till I hit #5.
Note, I wasn't sure how many boxes I had so I was playing around with laying them out to #4 and #6 might be reversed.
Needless to say, it is rather odd behavior. I'm not a developer, but I really think Mozilla should rethink the way cookies are handled. The end-user shouldn't have to sacrifice sanity for privacy handling. It's a big turn-off.
One other annoying thing, and this might be a separate bug is that some sites while trying to send the cookies think cookies are off and tell you that you need your cookies are on. Bestbuy.com USE TO require cookies to browse their site. I don't have another site offhand for testing purposes of this.