Firefox hangs immediately trying to visit any page. Safe Mode/Reset not fixing it.

Hello,
No matter what page I visit, firefox will hang immediately. There are no crash ID's associated with it when I type "About:crashes". It will stay responding on the firefox start page, but even typing "Test" into the google search, will make the google results hang before it finishes loading. This happens no matter what site I've been to. Here are the things I've tried:
- Safe mode (still hangs)
- Reset firefox (still hangs)
- Uninstall and delete all traces of "mozilla". Reinstall (still hangs)
- disabling Kaspersky (Still hangs)
- Resorting to Firefox 31 instead of 34 (still hangs)
I have no idea what to do, and all of my searching turns up no results.
Please help! I would love to go back to using Firefox again.
Win8 64bit
Thanks,

Hi msgins, are you getting the Mozilla Crash Reporter dialog, or are you having to kill/force quit Firefox so you don't get that dialog?
If you get the Crash Reporter dialog, you can provide the volunteers here with your recent crash report IDs for specific comments. The last section of this article describes how to retrieve those IDs: [[Firefox crashes]].
Since this thread is already marked solved, you should start a new question so that people notice you need help. You can use this link:
https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new/desktop/fix-problems
Scroll down past the suggested articles to continue with the form to submit your question.
If you don't have crash IDs, could you try Firefox's Safe Mode and report on whether that makes any difference (in your new question). More info on Safe Mode in this article: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
<sub>Solved thread closed by moderator. aw
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