Firefox hangs up and crashes

Firefox freezes up constantly for 5-10 seconds on every page and function. I then close Firefox and when I try to re-open it, I receive an error message that tells me a session is already running and that it must be closed before starting a new session. I am then forced to restart my computer.
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

How about some help with this? Thanks!

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