Cannot Open Firefox

Many times I experience this problem: I cannot open the Firefox. I double click the Firefox, or right-click it -> open, the Firefox is still not open.

I have been googling and found so many solution, I tried many of them from remove, reinsall, upgrade and downgrade and reinstall again. All are not working. Still the Firefox browser is hidden it only appears in the CPU processes when you hold Shift+ Ctrl and press Esc. When reinstalling I also remove all the previous setting, still didnot work.

Until I found a simple solution from this thread written by John.Wilkinson which works like charm for me:

First, try safe mode. Not Windows Safe Mode, but Firefox’s. With Firefox closed, press Windows + R and type in firefox.exe -safe-mode (with the space). If it launches normally the issue is with an installed extension, which can be identified through the process of elimination by disabling them one at a time and restarting Firefox.

Probable Causes and solutions:

Incompatible adds-on -> disable them
Corrupted Firefox files -> remove and reinstall
A registry problem. Somehow some of the registry values got changed to things that wouldn’t let things like Firefox and Adobe Reader work -> read the microsoft support here to fix it (it’s advanced setting, not recommended if you’re not expert in this stuff).

If you have similar experience with or without solution please share it with us in the comment box.

Tags: firefox, firefox problem

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dasir
October 15, 2009 at 4:52 am

ijin pertamax mas..bloh ya..sebentar mau baca dulu..

dasir
October 15, 2009 at 4:55 am

Waduh gitu tho mas,,,tapi sekarang alhamdulillah sudah bisa ya mas firefoxnya..salam.,..

fitra
October 15, 2009 at 5:08 am

Ass, boleh minta saran mas? saya mau beli flash pen untuk koneksi internet. Kira2 provider yang bagus apa ya? pilihan saya antara IM2 dan Mobi, selain pen nya murah, biaya bulanannya juga ga mahal2 amat.. atau teman2 lain bisa ikut bantu dengan pengalamannya? please help.. trims

MayPesbuk
October 15, 2009 at 5:57 am

firefox saya juga kadang sering crash,, kenapa yah?

padahal udah update firefox-nya…

blog buat bloggers
October 15, 2009 at 1:25 pm

nice info mas

Nyubi
October 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm

I see that! My problem is about certification! Always ask for certificate when open a site

karim
October 16, 2009 at 12:42 am

conflict in my laptop if using mozilla

akhlis
October 19, 2009 at 1:25 am

I used to experience the same ‘disaster’, too. But I never tried to fix it on purpose. I just turned to another browser, Internet explorer. Oddly enough, somehow after some time I let my Firefox unused, I curiously clicked on its icon, and it was working just fine as if there had been nothing wrong happening. So weird!