Firefox crashing constantly

Firefox is up to some old tricks again. it's started crashing constantly and is unusable in the current state. After between 2 to 5 tabs are open, it will become completely unresponsive. If I move a desktop away and back in my window manager, the whole thing will be just a grey box. I usually kill it with "killall firefox"
Things I've tried to fix it:
+ New profile.
+ firefox -safe-mode
+ removing all extensions
+ restarting
+ pacman -S firefox to reinstall
+ running as root, sudo firefox
Nothing seems to fix it! Can you please help me get my browser back?
Last edited by abitoir (2015-06-16 11:16:03)

Is there some output the moment it freezes? (pretty unlikely, though)
No output I can see. Tried this in multiple window managers.
Does the CPU usage rise above average?
None more than normal, 5-20% cpu
Is it site-specific, or will just visiting any random sites cause this?
Any random site
pacman -Qi
Name : firefox
Version : 38.0.5-1
Description : Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Licenses : MPL GPL LGPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gtk2 mozilla-common libxt startup-notification mime-types dbus-glib alsa-lib desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme libvpx icu libevent nss hunspell sqlite
Optional Deps : networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [installed]
gst-plugins-good: h.264 video [installed]
gst-libav: h.264 video [installed]
upower: Battery API
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 87.36 MiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]>
Build Date : Tue 02 Jun 2015 07:14:26 PM ICT
Install Date : Tue 16 Jun 2015 11:38:43 AM ICT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
uname -a
Linux comp 4.0.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 6 18:37:49 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
as for root, I tried that because someone suggested running as a different user.
I think this should technically be called a "hang" instead of a "crash" as the window stays open but is nonresponsive.
I've now tried:
Firefox refresh. New profile. Renaming the ~/.mozilla.firefox folder as you suggested.
Still dies, sometimes during startup.

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Signature PInvokeCalliWorker
UUID 4a4046f2-a971-4f43-aa11-9fe452110918
Date Processed 2011-09-18 09:55:19.561788
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Build ID 20110902133214
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