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After last Windows update, Firefox will not work

TerryInLeesburg
TerryInLeesburg
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I am running Vista Business OS. and FF beta 4.x

After the latest updates (installed automatically) on Wed, April 27, Firefox will not load. When I click on the icon, I get the "busy" and then.......nothing. It does show as a running process, but nothing comes up on the screen. I have re-downloaded and re-installed it, but nothing. IE does come up, but Chrome does not. It seems like MS blocked FF with the latest updates.

If I revert to the restore point before the updates were installed, FF works fine.

Help!

I am running Vista Business OS. and FF beta 4.x After the latest updates (installed automatically) on Wed, April 27, Firefox will not load. When I click on the icon, I get the "busy" and then.......nothing. It does show as a running process, but nothing comes up on the screen. I have re-downloaded and re-installed it, but nothing. IE does come up, but Chrome does not. It seems like MS blocked FF with the latest updates. If I revert to the restore point before the updates were installed, FF works fine. Help!

Modified by TerryInLeesburg

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Thomas-Interwave
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I uninstalled KB 2446708 (Security Update for .NET Framework 4) ... took forever to uninstall, like 20 minutes.... And now Firefox starts up normally!

By the way, my Firefox is version 3.6.17, running on Windows Vista 64bit. I try to avoid all the new updates like IE9. Perhaps I should try avoiding .NET Framework 4 as well.