Firefox crashes when I try to clear my cache

I am using firefox 15.0.1 on OS X Lion 10.7.4.
Each time I try to clear my cache, firefox just freezes. Then I have to force quit. I tried this many times.
I have no clue what to do.

This has been an issue with mac ever since I use Firefox.
Never got solved. Up till today my Firefox consistently hangs when clearing cache.
It would be nice if some FF developer had a serious look at this. It's pretty annoying, especially when developing websites.

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