Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard mac It hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise m

Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard Mac It even hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise me
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I tried to update firefox add-ons ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

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