561610 - Process for firefox running, but no windows are seen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239223

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eileen Conner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1045 Safari/532.5
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

Problem present after update of Java to latest version. Happens after reinstalling firefox, and after rebooting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Latest Jave update
2.Attempt to launch firefox
3.
Actual Results:  
No window for firefox appears, when I hit control alt delete and check processes it shows firefox.exe to be running

Expected Results:  
Open hompage window

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Does it also occur in Safe Mode ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Eileen Conner]

Does not occur in safe mode. Problem resolved today

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Thanks for writing back. If this problem stopped appearing in the normal mode too, great.

For future reference, there's a support page about this:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_at_exit