Firefox freezes upon opening up the program. Have to force quit (mac) every time. I've reinstalled 5 times.

I have no idea what's causing this. I used Firefox exclusively for years and one day it just froze. I tried rebooting my computer, and eventually deleting and reinstalling Firefox multiple times. Nothing has helped. It was several months ago that the problem began, so I don't recall exactly what I was doing when it first happened. I've searched my hard drive for leftover remnants of an old Firefox program that might be causing problems, but I've found nothing. I've used Safari ever since and that works fine. I just prefer Firefox so I'd like to be able to use it again. My mac is about 6 years old, using OSX 10.8.5.
Thanks!

Unfortunately my music software is not compatible with the new Mac OSX update (it may be in the coming months), so I have to stick with this one for now. Do you think Firefox would really just shut me down like that, just because I'm on a previous operating system?
I guess I'll just stick with Safari until my Native Instruments Maschine II allows for the Yosemite update.
Thanks for trying to help out!

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panoss-macbook:~ Panos$ kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74)
com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.0)
com.serato.usb.kext (2.3.0)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.6)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.6)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.2.6)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.2.6)
com.rane.driver.sl2.10.6 (1.0.1f3)
com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs (2.5.4)
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com.rim.BBDaemon
com.rane.sl4.daemon
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com.rane.sl2.daemon
com.rane.sixtytwo.daemon
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com.rane.sixtyeight.daemon
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.machangout.glims.loader
com.logmein.logmeinserver
com.google.keystone.daemon
com.disc-soft.DAEMONTools.PrivilegedHelper
com.adobe.SwitchBoard
com.adobe.fpsaud
panoss-macbook:~ Panos$ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
com.growl.GrowlLauncher
com.logmein.CubbyHelper
com.Eltima.SyncMateServer
org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
com.rim.BBLaunchAgent
com.rim.RimAlbumArtDaemon
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater
com.machangout.glims.agent
com.logmein.logmeinguiagent
com.logmein.logmeingui
com.hp.messagecenter.launcher
com.hp.devicemonitor
com.google.keystone.system.agent
com.divx.update.agent
com.divx.dms.agent
com.facebook.videochat.Panos.updater
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VBoxNetAdp.kext
VBoxNetFlt.kext
VBoxUSB.kext
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AEProfiling.framework
AERegistration.framework
Abracode.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
Compressor.framework
ContactRender.framework
DSPPublishing.framework
DivX Toolkit.framework
FxPlug.framework
GData.framework
GlimsAdditions.framework
HPSmartPrint.framework
MacFUSE.framework
MediaServerAPI.framework
MindFortress.framework
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PMPluginsFramework4.framework
Pantomime.framework
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ProMetadataSupport.framework
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RIM_VSP.framework
RimBlackBerryUSB.framework
SIXTY-EIGHTApi.framework
SL2Api.framework
SL4Api.framework
SixtyOneApi.framework
SixtyTwoApi.framework
Sl3Api.framework
TSLicense.framework
XSKey.framework
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AdobeAAMDetect.plugin
AdobeExManDetect.plugin
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AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
DirectorShockwave.plugin
DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
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OVSHelper.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
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SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
Silverlight.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
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com.divx.dms.agent.plist
com.divx.update.agent.plist
com.google.keystone.agent.plist
com.hp.devicemonitor.plist
com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist
com.logmein.logmeingui.plist
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com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist
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com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
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com.apple.aelwriter.plist
com.apple.qmaster.qmasterd.plist
com.disc-soft.DAEMONTools.PrivilegedHelper.plist
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com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist
com.machangout.glims.loader.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
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