Firefox Broke?

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  1. iced up

    iced up Well-Known Member

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    Well I wake up today, brush my teeth shower eat breakfest.. Get on the computer, launch firefox.. And it just keeps freezing when I load it. So I'm like, okay I'll just reboot... I reboot, same thing. I uninstall, download it again, install, still doesnt work :( Anyone know whats wrong?
     
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    you may have spyware or a virus that isn't letting it run. try Ad-Aware, and Search and Destroy. for antivirus, I would try avast, nod32, and avg.

    That should knock out any virus or spyware.

    try HijackThis! also, and delete any startup processes that look suspicious.
     
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    make sure all your extensions are updated
     
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    orbZ, how could he possibly do that? He can't even get into Firefox. You couple people on here need larger text....
     
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    by opening FF in safemode, and try updating or uninstalling extensions and see if that help
     
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    Spyware for shure, happens everytime when I DONT scan for spyware for soemtime.
     
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    see if there is a new version of firefox out there. They release new ones every couple weeks.
     
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    I know, go back to ie, or used an IE based browser...lol. Well, use every virus scanner you can find and hunt down that SOB. :)
     
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    Oh well... I downloaded opera, and it's not that bad I just have to get used to it. Thanks for all the help guys, maybe sometime later I'll go and try to fix it.
     
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    Sorry if we didn't help =\ might be a firewall..
     
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    Sry if this is off-topic, but i have so much trouble w/ firewalls and programs, like i can't start photoshop cs2 without turning off norton.
     
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    Nah you guys helped lots, and I've tried avant before.. Was okay, but I think I'll stick with opera, it's nice.

    And norton isnt that good.. You might wana get nod32 or avg antivirus.
     
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    Yea, anything is better than Norton...
     
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    That wierd..........
     

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