Help! firefox won't start

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On 12/10/06, David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> All of a sudden I can't launch firefox!  Clicking on the icon adds an
> entry to the task panel called "Starting Firefox Web Browser" for some
> 20 seconds or so, and then it disappears.  Running firefox from a
> shell prompt seems to either hang, or exit immediately, with no
> diagnostic output whatsoever.

have you tried: firefox -safe-mode
That disables extensions and uses a default theme I think. Worth trying.

- Andy