Firefox is constantly hanging up my Macbook in the last week

I have a white Macbook, purchased in mid 2009. For the last week or so, I'm having trouble with Firefox hanging up my computer so severely that only a hard boot (power off) will get it out of the spinning color wheel problem. I'm super frustrated and am even having trouble getting the computer to start up now. This ONLY happens with Firefox.

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
This can also be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox

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