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Won't show firefox since last night

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It crashed. Tried to restart and it won't show. Did a full scan. Uninstalled and reinstalled over 6 times. It says that I must close firefox that is currently in use but it isn't. When I use explorer to download firefox, explorer will sometimes crash.

It crashed. Tried to restart and it won't show. Did a full scan. Uninstalled and reinstalled over 6 times. It says that I must close firefox that is currently in use but it isn't. When I use explorer to download firefox, explorer will sometimes crash.

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Sometimes when FF is closing, not all of it shuts down properly. On Windows, start the Task Manager (Other systems may have different names). Select Applications (list of what user programs are running). If you see Firefox listed, try to shut it down normally. If it does not shut down, then on the Task Manager right click FF, and select End Task. However, if FF still does not shut down, or FF is not listed as running; on the Task Manager, select Processes. Look down the list for Firefox. Right click and select End Task. If this problem keeps coming up, ask for more help.

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If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more recent crash reports that have a "bp-" prefix:

  • bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page.

  • You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website, or open the crash reports page via "Help > Troubleshooting Information".

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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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Thank you very much. So far it's working fine. Times like this makes me wish I was a know-it-all, but I'm not. So glad you are.

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