Firefox wont load any sites or even the settings menu
Issue: Firefox browser loads and displays correctly, but will not load any webpages. Clicking a bookmark, or typing a URL and pressing enter, both do nothing. I can click the menu button to see the menu, but clicking on options does not do anything.
Thoughts: It is like the code for the browser is missing, even though the software seems to load fine, like when you add a button on a form in visual studio but don't add any code behind it.
What I've tried: Fresh install x2 with the latest version
Installed version: 85.0.2 64bit
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This is now solved. I decided on a whim to try re-installing the software one more time after searching my pc for the words mozilla and deleting everything. Now when I tried to install firefox I got an error message saying missing dll (something along the lines of vc_xxxxxx.dll, sorry I can't remember the message exactly)
Installing the latest Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable solved this issue. This can be downloaded from microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0
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