Firefox stops responding after everytime when launched.

Every time I launch Firefox, after a while it stops responding and it does not give me a crash report. I have tried re-installing it but no luck. I used the same add-ons for almost a year without any problems, and I have not recently downloaded anything. This started happening a couple of days ago. I have tried running it in safe mode but it still stops responding a while after I open Firefox. I am having to use another browser which does not make me happy at all.
Thanks in advance, Mustafa.
== User Agent ==
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60

That can be a problem with your AV software. Firefox let your default anti-virus program scan the file after the download has finished.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files

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