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After downloading the new update for Firefox I can no longer get Firefox to respond. I can only get it to respond in safe mode. Why?

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After downloading the new update to Firefox I cannot get Firefox to respond. The only way I can use Firefox is in Safe Mode.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I updated to new version of Firefox

After downloading the new update to Firefox I cannot get Firefox to respond. The only way I can use Firefox is in Safe Mode. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I updated to new version of Firefox

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I have the exact same problem, only on a MacBook Pro - loaded the Firefox update and now it won't open.

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See recent posts - more people with same problem but no techies are responding yet. Hopefully we can get a response soon.

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Cannot believe NO ONE from Firefox is responding to this issue; particularly since I don't seem to be the only one with the problem!!!!