When you do ctl-alt-del and open task manager do you see Images named “firefox.exe”?
Also, I highly recommend Chrome (you can get it on Google’s site. It is faster than firefox and a bit more user-friendly.
I agree with you about IE — I only use it for business applications.
I seem to have all the browsers, I usually just use IE though.
Do you have Malware Bytes? If so you should run it, just in case.
I had the same problem once but Firefox and Chrome worked again when I reinstalled again them a week later.
It could be a conflict with your add-ons.
Go to the program files directory once more and hold the shift key down while clicking on firefox.exe. This should put you in safe mode and bring up a window where you can disable add-ons etc. for troubleshooting.
XP Pro has a nasty habbit of maintaining numerous instances of Firefox.exe (Firefox) running in the Task Manager. This means that although you ‘think’ Firefox is closed; it isn’t. It’s still residing in memory and taking cycles - but isn’t able to be displayed because you’ve allegedly ‘closed it’. IMHO, this is a flaw with XP Pro (I haven’t seen it in XP Home - not saying it doesn’t exist there; I’m just unaware of it).
So, either of these solutions should work.
1) Restart your machine when this beasties pops up - frustrating, consumes time and patience, but it should work.
2) Right click on task bar, pull up Task Manager. Switch to ‘Processes’ Tab, select and cancel each and every ‘Firefox.exe’ process you have running.
Either one should get you up and running.
Did you shut down and restart the computer? If not, try that first.
See if you can find the actual executable program (i.e. “Firefox.exe”). Try double-clicking on that and see if it runs. If it does run, then the problem is your shortcuts on the desktop and/or in the Start menu are just pointing to the wrong place.
Use IE to download the current versions of Firefox and other browsers and reinstall them. That should fix them.
Did you do anything to the computer about the time the browsers stopped working? (i.e. installed new or updated software?). It’s hard to see how multiple browser programs would suddenly stop working.
Is your antivirus program up to date?
Go to filehippo and get the version that worked for you, install, you’re done
OR
do a system restore to the point before Mozilla decided to ruin your life for you. This may not work. It didn’t for me last time Mozilla did their fancy footwork on me.
And yes, I’ve been using Thunderbird and Firefox for years and yes my version of Firefox is legacy by choice.
I hate upgrades.
I do not have an answer but since this is a computer thread, I have a question that is unrelated to your problem. Does any one know where the info is stored on my computer? Specifically User Name and passwords for sites like FR or my Email program.
Have you downloaded any “free” software lately. That happened to me recently and it caused all kinds of grief. I thought my hard drive had failed before I finally got the kinks out of the system. To make matters worse, it was when I wanted to uninstall this “free” software that the problems started. Moral to this story. Nothing is free.
Yes, and it was with Firefox.
I had the same problem. I just removed the new version of Firefox and downloaded an older version - it was all fixed.
It periodically asks me if I want to update and I always decline.
are you logged in?
How weird! The post that had the best suggestion has disappeared from the thread!
Any how, whoever you are that suggested I dl and install the latest flash and java apps was right. That fixed the problem.
Thanks!