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Firefox process starts, but no window is displayed.

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AnonymousUser
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Suddenly Firefox will not start. The firefox.exe process is running fine, but no window is displayed. And no sign of it in the taskbar. There is no error-messages. I have tried to create a new profile, it did not help.

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Suddenly Firefox will not start. The firefox.exe process is running fine, but no window is displayed. And no sign of it in the taskbar. There is no error-messages. I have tried to create a new profile, it did not help. == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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sbartsch
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When this happens, if IE8 is NOT open, it WON'T open until I kill the Firefox process.

The only solution I have found is to reboot my machine.

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