Firefox freezes when i access youtube

My firefox crashes when i load youtube, everytime i click on a video and just before it loads firefox freezes, please help, i disabled the plugin, uninstalled, re installed but none of these worked for me, i even ran a scan with my eset smart security and no viruses or malware detected. Thanks
== URL of affected sites ==
http://www.youtube.com
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

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