Ok. I tried renaming the .mozilla folder to .mozilla_old and started firefox. Still it did not help. I removed firefox installation by apt-get remove firefox. Deleted the .mozilla folder. Then installed again by apt-get install firefox. Then tried to create a new profile. But it still hangs.
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