Firefox will work fine, then for no reason stop loading websites.

I'll be having a great time on Firefox when out of nowhere it will stop loading websites - it won't give me an error message, it will just saying 'connecting' and spin forever. This can happen at any time and is beginning to get really frustrating - sometimes I will go an hour without it happening, sometimes 30 seconds. I'm currently typing this on Internet Explorer, whilst Firefox refuses to open a webpage in the background.
Whenever this happens, I'll have to exit Firefox. This would be fine, although reopening Firefox will then give me a 'Firefox is already running, but not responding' error, followed by the now classic 'Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded, it is missing or inaccessible.' Trying to close it with the Task Manager doesn't seem to work - even when using it with administrative privileges it will not disappear. Right-clicking and selecting 'go to Detail' and trying to close it from there just gives me an 'Access Denied' error. Earlier today, after restarting the computer, Firefox gave me this message before I had even opened it, yet other times it works fire and loads my profile perfectly.
Is there a way to deal with this problem? I've tried creating a new profile, I've tried refreshing Firefox and I've tried Uninstalling and Reinstalling. This happens with or without add-ons installed and is driving me crazy. I have used Firefox for years so have a large selection of bookmarks and passwords that I don't want to lose. Currently running this on a fairly up-to-date laptop with Windows 8 installed.

I was having this same exact problem for the last week. It started happening after Firefox updated. I tried a few different things that didn't help. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling which didn't help either. I finally fixed the problem tonight.
Here are the steps I took to fix it. Make sure you are logged into sync and hit the sync button to update it. This will save your bookmarks and user settings.
If you want to be able to restore your current session go into your main drive and click users, your user name, AppData, Roaming, Mozilla, Firefox, Profiles, open that folder and copy sessionstore-backups and save it to your desktop or somewhere you can remember.
After you have done that uninstall Firefox. Now restart your computer into Safe Mode.
Go into your main drive usually C on most computers and click users, your user name, AppData, Roaming. Click the Mozilla folder and delete it. Now hit the back button and click on Local. Find the Mozilla folder in there and delete it too.
You can now restart your computer and install a fresh copy of Firefox. Once it is installed you can log into sync and it will restore all your settings and bookmarks.
If you want to restore your previous session close Firefox and make your way back to AppData, Roaming, Mozilla, Firefox, Profiles, open the new profiles folder (Example: abcd1234.default) and paste the folder you saved called sessionstore-backups in there.
You can now open Firefox and all your tabs will be there, and after a few mins all your settings and bookmarks will be restored by sync. You shouldn't have any more problems following this method. The pages no longer stop loading and it closes like it is supposed to.

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