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Firefox won't open.
elsien
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I click on the icon or try to open it through the start menu and nothing is happening. I get the little eggtimer thing for about half a second and then nothing. It's not the security - tried pausing it and it didn't make any difference. Any suggestions - it's not the newer version, it's 2.0.
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Go into Task Manager, the Processes tab, and right-click on any instance of firefox.exe, and do End Process on it. Do this for ALL of them. Then try restarting it. Otherwise uninstall / reinstall?0
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Where do I find task manager?All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
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On a windows system, hold down Ctrl, Alt and Del and task manager should start up.Fight Crime : Shoot Back.
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Found it. There isn't a firefox.exe in there though. Looks like reinstalling then. Thanks for the advice.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
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it may be due to a corrupt profile
see here
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6620_102-0.html?threadID=1656090 -
You mentioned it was the old version - you might be best of updating, that often fixes problems. I think Firefox has come a long way since 2.0 - definitely worth a shot. Just find and download it using internet explorer. (which i'm guessing is on your PC already)
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doesent work for me either firefox updated itself on friday filled my computer full of trojans and now wont work im sticking to chromeReplies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you0
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I very much doubt firefox did that its a very popular product and others would report that. It must be something else that caused trojans my advice is install firefox and get the 'noscript'addon is a great protection for web sites
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722doesent work for me either firefox updated itself on friday filled my computer full of trojans and now wont work im sticking to chrome0
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