Firefox Crashes and Hangs when opened and wont work in safe mode

I use a mac OS X 10.6.7
I have tried to follow your guides but I have been unable to stop firefox from crashing. I disabled all the apps via safe mode and the programme still crashes.
I type in about:crashes but only had time to get the last crash details

Thanks for the note about profile locations.
I deleted mimeType.rdf in my existing profile, still have the same issue - can't view Tools -> Options for the Applications tab, or download a file. Same goes for a new profile - the same issues arise.
Firefox never does crash, I can leave it in this hung state for hours (I left it in a 'not responding' state last night and it was still hung this morning).
I was going to add a screen shot to this post but Firefox hung when I clicked on the 'Browse' button. Perhaps this is an issue when FF tries to interact with my directory structure? Does that get us any leads on what's wrong?
FYI, I currently have my antivirus disabled & not running in the task bar just in case that was interfering somehow.

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I deleted mimeType.rdf in my existing profile, still have the same issue - can't view Tools -> Options for the Applications tab, or download a file. Same goes for a new profile - the same issues arise.
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You could try performing a clean installation: [[Knowledge Base Article]] :
Some Firefox issues can be resolved by downloading a new Firefox installer from Mozilla.com, then closing Firefox, deleting the Firefox application folder (program files) and reinstalling Firefox. If this does not help, or if you would rather completely remove Firefox and start over instead of completing all the troubleshooting steps, follow these steps:
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AdapterDeviceID: 0322
AdapterVendorID: 10de
Add-ons: [email protected]:1.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:6.0.2
AvailableVirtualMemory: 2043473920
BuildID: 20110902133214
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EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1315428336
Notes: AdapterVendorID: 10de, AdapterDeviceID: 0322, AdapterDriverVersion: 5.3.1.6
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 95303
StartupTime: 1316129351
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 91
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
TotalVirtualMemory: 2147352576
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 6.0.2
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/latest-firefox-issues
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report
 
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*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
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