Firefox won't open

[TWilkening]

I can't get Firefox to open on our computer. Whenever you click on the icon, it'll show the ourglass and the light on the computer will flash, but then it quits and doesn't open. Yesterday I was able to get it open by hitting it a bunch of times real quick. BUt today not even that will work. Got any ideas? TIA

 

[SRadke]

It did that to me onece because it was already running in the background. I hit the ctrl/alt/delete buttons to get that window up and closed the Firefox program, then it worked. I dunno, I'm not a computer guy.



-Scott

 

[TWilkening]

If I hit it and immediately Ctrl/alt/del, it shows it, but if you cancel and hit it agin in a few seconds, it's gone. I'm puzzled, as I'm not much of a computer guy either. Just mad that I'm using Internet Explorer.

 

[RDusch]

Unistall firefox completly, then go to firefox web site and redownload, and reinstall.

should get you back up and running.

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

I was able to get it open by hitting it a bunch of times real quick

May be you broke it. :-laf



You've probably restarted the computer from scratch. Hang in there, imho, it sure beats IE.

 

[TWilkening]

I'll just reinstall tonight. Have to do it late since us out here in BFE are still running dialup :-laf

 

[Jeepmullet]

hit ctr + alt + delete and kill any firefox processes you see. Firefox is a cluster F#$% of a memory hog and has tons of memory leak in it. If it will not allow you to kill it (it just stays on when you end it) then restart your computer. Sometimes firefox will hang as a process if you try to use it when you're not connected or if you close the program when you're in the middle of loading a page.

 

[TWilkening]

Okay. I completely deleted Firefox, and downloaded the new versoin from Mozilla. I install it and go to start it up. It is doing the exact same thing it was. I can in no way get it to open. If I double click and quickly hit CAD, it shows it as running. Hit cancel wait a few seconds and hit CAD again, it is not there. Any more ideas? This is really starting to **** me off!!!

 

[jwilliams3]

Firefox worked for me for about 5 minutes.

Then I had trouble with it and since then I have tried to delete and re-load thing and it still wont work.

In fact it freezed things up bad.

 

[Joe G.]

Have you run your virus and spy ware software to see if you have anything like that on your system? I have been using Firefox since it came out including the beta versions when they became available. So far it has been the most stable and trouble free browser I have used.



The only problem I have had is with the accelerator software provided by my ISP to speed up my dialup connection. That problem does not exist on the version of Firefox I'm using now.

 

[TWilkening]

I have run several virus scans. I also downloaded the free spysweeper that would scan but not get rid of spyware. It did not find anything. I think we got a virus or something, but the computer can't find anything.

 

[jwilliams3]

I think it something to do with Firefox.

My IE works perfect as usual.



I have only had this problem with Firefox.



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