I'm not sure what would have been said here about a .1 update. There's really not much to it, is there?

I think the major differences are things like one-click themes (I hate almost all the themes, there really aren't any subtle ones). I thought I also heard that 3.6 also formally enabled flash video. I'd be a HUGE fan of that, as I'm perfectly happy to see Flash go to hell.

The only other surface change I can see is that now by default new tabs open to the right of the tab you're currently in, instead of the previous behavior which was to open to the far right. Many are upset about this, but as with pretty much anything in Firefox (including your Awesome bar issue), it's configurable in about:config. It took me a few instances to get used to it, but I actually prefer the new behavior.