I have been using Firefox, as my browser, for the last year. It has been great. Suddenly this morning, I start firefox, and nothing happens. I look in the windows task manager, and nothing shows up under the Applications tab, but under the Processes Tab firefox.EXE is running. Still nothing on the desktop. I leave, come back a couple of hours later, and still nothing on my desktop or under the applications tab. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY BROWSER!!!!!!!

I did an uninstall, reinstalled firefox, and the same thing is happening. I ran a full virus scan with freshly updated definitions. Ran spybot search and destroy, also with fresh updates. No problems revealed with either. I am lost.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

P.S. I hate internet explorer.

^I had a problem opening it, which is why I downloaded 3.5

I had to use Explorer to get on the Firefox site to get the download.

Under the applications tab did you END TASK firefox.exe and then try restarting it?

I've noticed sometimes I have to do that because it stays running in the background and won't reopen.

It never comes up under the applications tab. But it is there on the processes tab.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Try close that instead and then reopening.

I mean End Task under the Processes Tab. Then restarting it.

Or End Process

Yep I ended task on the processes tab, but I still can't get it to run. I am frustrated.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Strange. There's another browser called K-Meleon that uses the Firefox core. It's very basic and very fast. You can download it here:

kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

I don't know what to tell you about Firefox...TG might be able to help.

Ed...this happened to me the other day. I just loaded the new version of Firefox and it's working great now. My history and favorites were intact too.

hope this helps

you might run a chkdsk from the start button. Seems like the update corrupted a file or two on mine too.

Check your OS version, make sure that your windows update has run recently.

Thanks Ed I will try it.

I really like firefox, I hope I can get it up and running again.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

The only other option that I could find is to uninstall it again.

Then go to C:\Program Files and delete the Mozilla/Firefox folder.

Then run a registry cleaner to clean out any registry entries. Something like Eusing Free Registry Cleaner (http://eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm)

Then download the latest Firefox and reinstall it.

Thanks again Ed,

I will try that.

Thanks again

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Sounds like you have a virus called Windows Vista.

RE#16,

Nope, I am using XP.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Still having trouble. I really like Firefox, but I am getting used to K-Meleon now.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

did you try going to their site and downloading it from there? just curious...

I have Vista with Firefox 3.0.13

No problems here and it's my main browser that I use.