Talk:Browser will not start up

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FYI, in FF 1.0.3, when in safe mode, one can't disable extensions; one can only delete them - 'Disable' is itself disabled. (I find that, anyway; the Options button is greyed out (and 'Disable' is grey in the right-mouse menu), but Uninstall and Update are available.) My guess: if this is a new bug, a bug needs filing/fixing, if it's an old bug, the dox need changing.

Mozilla Suite (Windows) fails to start

I added this section because the problem is still being posted to the forums, for example, Mozilla 1.7.8 won't start (Posted: Wed 6th Jul 2005) and Mozilla won't open! (Posted: Tue 15th Mar 2005). Alice 16:27, 17 September 2005 (PDT)

Windows-specific problems - Windows Vista

Apparently, you don't need the %-signs around AppData when you enter it in the Windows Vista Run Box. Copied from a netscape.public.mozilla.general newsgroup post:

Subject: Re: Mozilla and Vista

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:35:13 GMT
From: Bob <snip>
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.general

Yes, that worked! It took me a while to figure out where the run command is now and I first tried to include the % in appdata, but once I got over these issues, it seems to work fine. Hope I don't run into any other problems with Firefox. I guess for the time being we will have to do this every time we download a new version. Thanks for the suggestions.
<snip>
> I had the same problem but after I did the following fix it sorted it, from
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up#Windows-specific_problems
<snip>
> Windows Vista: Open the C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Local
> \VirtualStore\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder and delete the file
> "xpicleanup.dat". The "AppData" folder is hidden by default; to open
> it, go to "Start -> Run -> (type in) %APPDATA% -> OK". You may need to
> first end the "xpicleanup" process, if found, in Windows Task Manager
> and delete the file "xpicleanup.exe" in the Firefox installation directory.

Alice 16:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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