![]() (Again like its predecessors, its process while in Safe Mode occupied slightly less memory.)īoth in Safe Mode and not, it made no difference whether or not the folder "Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" contained a profile or not. No messages.Īfter restarting Windows in Safe Mode, rerunning this new copy of Firefox Installer.exe still did nothing other than to create a process, again without messages. 2.5MB-just like its predecessors cited in the initial report. This new copy of Firefox Installer.exe, for 52.8.1, did nothing but create a process occupying c. Ran my Registry checker, which (no surprise) found six invalid links, which it fixed. Deleted the folder c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.Ĥ. Downloaded the 52.8.1 Firefox Installer.exe.Ģ. ![]() I took the following steps, as suggested.ġ. I now have Firefox running, although not as a result of the more straightforward of those suggestions.įirst, what didn't work (although it might, notwithstanding, have set the scene for what did work later). Thank you, Fred McD, for your comprehensive suggestions. Firefox still won't run, and none of the installers produces any output.įWIW, I'd wondered whether Firefox might simply be refusing to run any longer on Windows XP, but recent tests show that the Firefox-based TOR browser runs from a memory stick just as normal. The current situation is that Windows was restored to the most recent checkpoint, June 6, as in the second paragraph (although obviously Windows has taken later checkpoints, so that the June 6 checkpoint has been overwritten), and Firefox is installed. (2) Clicking on the Firefox shortcut and selecting "Run As" with the same account produces the message "A device attached to the system is not functioning" a 'Web search for his message turns up nothing relevant. (a) The 306 KB installers occupy slightly less storage: c. Things are essentially the same in Windows Safe Mode, with the following differences. (I didn't try Firefox Setup 60.0.2.exe from the CMD window.)Ģ. Even from the CMD window, it remains the case that the installers create a process occupying c. Running any of these installers (and also firefox.exe itself) from a CMD window confirms instant termination. ![]() The following may or may not be relevant.ġ. Rather than my receiving the expected message saying that 60.0.2 isn't supported on Windows XP, this installer, too (once it's used some amount of both CPU and storage), is simply suspended occupying 2,544KB and staying silent. Knowing that it would not run successfully under Windows XP, I nonetheless tried later Firefox installers (e.g., Firefox Setup 60.0.2.exe downloaded from ). None of these installers produces any message, and each creates a process which occupies c. I tried several Firefox installers (all downloaded via various links from Mozilla): all are bit-for-bit identical, albeit with one occasional exception, i.e., sometimes a string is "duckduckgo.", and sometimes it's "getfirefox-". Program Firefox Installer.exe (306 KB in size, downloaded from, for example) begins a process which occupies either 2,484KB or 2,488KB of storage, but which does nothing. Restoring Windows to still earlier dates produced the same situation: Firefox would not run, exactly as after the initial restoration.ĭeleting the (only) Firefox profile made no difference.Īll subsequent attempts to reinstall Firefox-whether or not Firefox had been uninstalled-have been equally unsuccessful, and equally mute. Again, there were no messages of any type. Windows Task Manager showed no evidence, however transient, of either any Application or Process for Firefox. There were no messages of any type.Īttempts either to create a new Firefox profile (-p) or to start Firefox in safe mode (Shift) were no different. I restored Windows to the then most recent checkpoint, June 6, only to find the attempted cure worse than the disease: Firefox would not even start. This happens from time to time, and it's simplest first to try restoring Windows to the previous checkpoint: this is sometimes successful in that Firefox then does display tabs. On June 7, Firefox lost all the tabs from the previous day. ![]() I had been running the latest version (52.8) of Firefox supported under Windows XP, but now I can no longer run Firefox, and, worse, cannot reinstall it.
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