Firefox hangs above v3.6.3
Bottom line: run CCleaner and let it delete all your bogus registry entries… thankfully, that did the trick for me first shot <whew>.
- I’m on Windows 7
- I definitely have some viruses
- Firefox stopped launching after a fiery session of whacking suspicious DLLs/EXEs sitting in my %temp% and %appdata% folders (McAfee isn’t catching them [Update: 22 Sep 2010] Thankfully, BitDefender 2011 found a rootkit and another little bugger)
- The firefox.exe process would show up in task manager but it’s window would never show
- I was currently running Firefox v3.6.10 and kept downgrading to see what would happen… interestingly v3.6.3 was the newest one that still worked … as of v3.6.4 no dice… even v4.0 beta 6 was hosed
- Googling was coming up pretty blank so that’s why I’m blogging this… i did see one or two other Mozilla support forum posts that had been closed due to inactivity
- This thread was still running so I’ve posted this resolution there, linking back here
- I understand this isn’t really a diagnosis but more of a shotgun blast type fix… if you really care, you could whack entries one by one to find the true culprit… i saved my registry entries as a backup so theoretically i could go do that for someone that was in dire need :)
