Recently upgraded from Firefox 3.6.13 to Firefox 13 - freezes when trying to open

I've been using firefox 3.6.13 for some time now; the reason I have such an older version is because it's for a work computer, and an upgrade to newer versions generally isn't seamless and can interrupt the process of work.
Any way, I find some down time and decided that I'd upgrade to the latest version of firefox. Every thing seemed to install fine, and it copied over all of my addons apparently (which I'm grateful for). How ever, when opening up Firefox it opens and displays two tabs saying "connecting", but nothing happens beyond that. It just freezes completely providing the "waiting" icon when hovering over it. I tried waiting 10+ minutes for what ever process was holding up to complete, but nothing happened. In order to close out of firefox I need to kill the process in task manager.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the same issue occurs. I tried looking for previous, more stable, versions of firefox but couldn't find any thing.

Problems with Flash content can be caused by a recent Flash 11.3 update.
See:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/keep-flash-up-to-date-and-troubleshoot-problems
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/flash-crashes-or-does-not-load-firefox-13
*http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0
*http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html

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