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My ISP went down Thursday during a severe thunderstorm. When it came back online, my Firefox browser wouldn't start.
I've been struggling with FF Support for 2 days and it's still not fixed. I'm running Opera temporarily. I had FF tweaked to perfection so I want that back. Meanwhile, all of my login credentials have been zapped.
Can anyone suggest a fix?
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When I click the Firefox launch icon on my desktop, it merely creates an impotent icon in the lower taskbar labeled "Yahoo Search". I find nothing except a red "X" in the upper right corner of the new window.
I have Windows 7/64 and the current version of FF.
Other browsers work fine although I've lost my credentials.
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Have you re-installed? That should keep the settings, if they haven't been lost already.
*May* want to create a restore point beforehand, but a bad restore point can be worse than none.
Make your sound your own! .. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Agreed. Reinstall. When you hit mozilla.com, it should detect your FF and offer to refresh it. Click that.
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I tried reinstall , no joy!
Firefox has a repair utility at mozilla.com but it requires having FF running. Ketch 22!
I completely removed all traces of FF in the registry the ran CC to search remnants before reinstalling a brand new version from mozilla. Original problem persists. Clicking the launch button just creates another impotent icon in the taskbar. Firefox Support was baffled.
I've tried everything to no avail. Very frustrated.
Donny
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Rharv,
Your mailbox is full.
What would you charge to "remote" my computer and get Firefox working again?
Please PM me.
Thanks,
Don
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Is it possible a copy of Firefox is already running (badly)? Check the Task Manager.
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Don I freed up some PM space, but I am booked up for most of the day. This may be of interest though, my first suspicion: https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/8835-search-yahoo-com-redirect Check your Programs and Features in Control Panel and see if anything Yahoo exists. Have you ran Malwarebytes ?
Make your sound your own! .. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Dear friend,
I finally got it sorted.
In safe mode, I discovered that Firefox was opening a wrong start (home) page (Yahoo Search). I eventually realized the problem (read 2 days of sheer frustration) and changed the target to firefox.exe and I'm back in bidness!
In 20/20 hindsight, each of the impotent icons being created in the taskbar were labeled "Yahoo Search", Duh!
Donny
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It's very easy to miss a checkbox and add one of those redirect toolbars when downloading software.
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Exactly what I thought. I'd still check Programs and Features and remove anything 'search' or 'Yahoo' that you didn't intentionally install, so it doesn't come back.
Glad you're back in business; browser hacks are a pretty common issue. Maybe with Java going away they will get a little more complicated to pull off.
If you run Java, make sure it is the latest/greatest. I choose to not use it now, since it is being deprecated soon. Chrome already stopped supporting it, FF will within 6 weeks .. along with Safari .. IE will be the last, as usual.
I expect an influx of work soon to rebuild websites relying on Java as more and more users experience errors ..
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Make your sound your own! .. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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If you want to have a backup of your FF settings-logins-favorites, just make a copy of the folder in C:\Users\Don\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles If you loose it, have a crash or want it on another pc just copy the contents of the folder to the default folder removing the existing files first.
In Explorer go to Organize - Layout - Menu bar Tools - Folder Options - View - Show hidden files, folders...
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