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fire fox refuses to open or restart but continues to report a crash

fire fox refuses to open or restart but continues to report a crash

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Hi,

Please check if this happens in Safe Mode.

Problematic Extensions

Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes

Uninstalling Add-ons

Uninstalling Toolbars

Safe mode disables the installed Extensions, and themes (Appearance) in Tools (Alt + T) > Add-ons. Hardware acceleration is also temporarily disabled - the manual setting is Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Use hardware acceleration when available. Options > Advanced. All these settings/add-ons can also be individually or collectively disabled/enabled/changed in Firefox normal mode to check if an extension, theme or hardware acceleration is causing issues.

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It could also be helpful (not in every case) if you could post some crash IDs after submitting the crash report from the crash reporter screen: Type %appdata% in the Windows Run box (Windows key + R), open Mozilla > Firefox > Crash Reports > submitted, right-click a report > Rename, copy and paste the names here. In some cases our users and contributors would be able to help.