452402 - firefox 3 wont start

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Allen Larsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 3.01

I installed version 3, and now i cant open firefox at all, nothing happens.  how can i get this fixed or at least roll back to the last version, i really dont want to loose all my bookmarks.

Allen  801-671-3600

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
program wont start

Comment 1

[Rick]

I installed a fresh copy of Firefox 3.0.4 and I can not get Firefox or the profile manager to run.

Comment 2

[balique]

Here the Firefox 3.0.5 (installed before a week) starts 1. time, but then after closing the window (understand : closing all firefox windows) sometimes refuses to start anymore until the computer reboots.

OS : Win XP

Comment 3

[Rick]

The problem:
If you have installed Firefox and it will not start. 

Try uninstalling and then reinstall to a different path. The default install location is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. Change the install path to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox Fix. This should fix the problem.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you get Firefox to run in safe Mode? Because you installed in a new directory and it worked, it seems like you had a extension that is messing with your install. safe mode should fix that.

Comment 5

[balique]

I managed to work around the problem in my installation by deleting(renaming) the users mozilla directory, reinstalling Firefox and then copying at least bookmarks back, loosing history and others settings.