All Firefox versions crash when I open them

I haven't been able to open Firefox at all for several months. I have tried everything that's listed in the support section and none of that applies.
I click to open it and two seconds later it crasher and I get a message that says "Firefox had a problem and crashed. We'll try to restore your tabs and windows when it restarts." I get two options, to restart or to quit.
Same thing happens when I restart and if I re-open it. I have checked the task manager and there's no firefox in the Processes tab.
Here are the details of the crash:
Add-ons: {CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0016-ABCDEFFEDCBA}:6.0.16,[email protected]:1.0,{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}:1.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.11
BuildID: 20101012113537
CrashTime: 1288115080
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email:
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1288017487
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 2380
StartupTime: 1288115072
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: about:blank
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.11
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
Here's a link to the bug information:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434403

Hi,
Boot from your install disc. Run Disk Utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782?viewlocale=en_US

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Ever since 4/19 of this year, Firefox has been randomly crashing when I open it, and after restarting it will crash randomly during sessions, generally when switching tabs I've noticed (though not always).
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AdapterDeviceID: 0x1200
AdapterVendorID: 0x10de
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SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 24
Theme: classic/1.0
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User32BeforeBlocklist: 1
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http://i.imgur.com/WqvP2tV.png
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