Another thing to check is if your Firefox user profile is not being
removed when you uninstall the browser. If it is corrupted, and not
being removed with the uninstall, a reinstall will result in it's again
using the corrupted profile, and exhibiting the same symptoms all over
again. I'm not sure where the user profile is kept on Windows anymore as
I use Ubuntu Linux most of the time now.
Ok, I quit being lazy, and Googled for the profile location, and it is
in one of the following places depending on your Windows version.
Windows XP / 2000 C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
Windows 95 / 98 / ME C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
[the string of x's represents a series of 8 random numbers and characters]
Since it does start normally the first time you use it on each boot, but
then refuses to come up, it must not be completely shutting down, and
the still running process will prevent it from starting again until you
kill that process. If this is actually the case, you can bring up task
manager to see if it's still running, and kill it from there.
Later, Ray Parrish
Michael wrote:
> It's really getting squirrelly. Mozilla Firefox will work right after
> I log in (WIN XP Home), but after quitting out of it, it does the same
> old thing - starts the process but no window comes up. This is after
> several full uninstall-reinstall. I haven't tried a system or
> registry restore, since this always seemed to happen periodically, but
> now seems to be permanent. I've made IE my default browser until I can
> get this figured out. Any further suggestions will be greatly
> appreciated.
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