Why does Firefox 21 close first session every single day?

My girlfriend has a new Vaio laptop running Windows 8 and Firefox 21.
Every time she starts Firefox for the first time (after powering up the laptop), the browser closes immediately upon her selecting a bookmark from the bookmark toolbar (usually Gmail) or whatever the first task is that she asks Firefox to do for her. (i.e., search or open a URL.)
I've already reset Firefox and confirmed that hardware acceleration is NOT enabled. (We've replicated the problem after completing these steps.)
The last four crash reports are below.
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-1030722a-36af-425a-a6dc-9b7de2130607
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-ddaa2289-9a7f-40b7-9e05-57f272130605
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-b06fe87b-748a-42dd-912f-cc5d32130605
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-ee8ecce2-8878-4166-8135-362b92130531
Needless to say, this ongoing problem is very frustrating. Any suggestions on how we can make her browser work more reliably would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

hello, i think the crash might be triggered by Whitesky's ID Vault which is installed on the notebook...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879354

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