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Firefox hangs when starting, Firefox window title bar says "Firefox (not responding)". (was: Firefox crashes)

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jwh47
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Firefox hangs when starting, during session restore. Uninstalled then installed new Firefix. Same problem. Firefox window title bar says "Firefox (not responding)". It just hangs, won;t display even one page. What to do? Tried -safe-mode, smae result.

Firefox hangs when starting, during session restore. Uninstalled then installed new Firefix. Same problem. Firefox window title bar says "Firefox (not responding)". It just hangs, won;t display even one page. What to do? Tried -safe-mode, smae result.

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If you see a Firefox window that says "Not Responding" then see the Firefox hangs or is not responding - How to fix article for possible solutions.

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Jack
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Hi,

See if this helps: Firefox crashes

Jack

jwh47
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Tried all that before I posted. No luck. I can't get FF to run at all - even new install. It just hangs, Windows say "Not Responding".

AliceWyman
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If you see a Firefox window that says "Not Responding" then see the Firefox hangs or is not responding - How to fix article for possible solutions.

IanH
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I keep too many tabs open and whilst trying to download a pdf file Firefox 8.01 hung and when I restarted it the Embarrassing page opened. I knew which tab I needed to delete but as soon as I tried to navigate to the errant tab it said "Not Responding" and nothing I could do would make it respond. I tried command line opening in safe mode and the same thing happened.

I have read the other posts but cannot send a crash dump as it is "Not Responding" and does not get far enough to crash.

IanH