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Firefox crashes at start up

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Hello,

I have tried uninstalling firefox and reinstalling and it is still crashing. I even tried using an older verison of firefox and it is still not working

Hello, I have tried uninstalling firefox and reinstalling and it is still crashing. I even tried using an older verison of firefox and it is still not working

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What's your computer system and Firefox version?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

While still in Safe Mode,

In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>.

Note: If any reports do not have BP in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.

The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.

Using your mouse, mark the most resent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box and paste them in.

aboutcrashesFx29

For more help on crash reports, see; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-asking-support +++++++++++++++++++++++ If you can't get Firefox to open, you will have to do this the hard way.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter Open the file browser / explorer on your computer. Note: You may have to enable Show Hidden Folders / Files. Enter this in the address bar;

Windows: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted Win 7/Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted Win XP/2000: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted

Mac OS: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/submitted Linux: /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted

Copy the most recent 5-7 File Names in the folder. Post the information in the reply box.

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This is the error message details I get:

AbortMessage: ###!!! ABORT: new XPCJSRuntime failed to initialize.: file c:/builds/moz2_slave/m-rel-w32-00000000000000000000/build/src/js/xpconnect/src/XPCJSRuntime.cpp, line 3598 AppInitDLLs: %ProgramFiles%\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktopNetwork3.dll AvailablePageFile: 4376285184 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 1131569152 AvailableVirtualMemory: 1999667200 BlockedDllList: BreakpadReserveAddress: 404553728 BreakpadReserveSize: 67108864 BuildID: 20161104212021 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0x38 CrashTime: 1507162991 InstallTime: 1479654150 Notes: xpcom_runtime_abort(###!!! ABORT: new XPCJSRuntime failed to initialize.: file c:/builds/moz2_slave/m-rel-w32-00000000000000000000/build/src/js/xpconnect/src/XPCJSRuntime.cpp, line 3598) ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 71547 StartupTime: 1507162988 SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 47 Throttleable: 1 TotalPageFile: 5171961856 TotalPhysicalMemory: 2138554368 TotalVirtualMemory: 2147352576 URL: UptimeTS: 150.393239 User32BeforeBlocklist: 1 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 50.0

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

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I am using windows xp. Was working find a few days ago

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FredMcD said

The crash report is several pages of data.

We need the report numbers to see the whole report.
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I dont know if these are them. I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled

Crash ID: bp-4443c651-10a2-49d3-8ff6-1a49e2150518

Crash ID: bp-bcdbb780-f7af-42be-a2e6-041aa2150423

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Don't know if this helps

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The crash numbers you posted are no good. Did you follow the posted instructions?

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If a line on the about:crashes page doesn't start with "bp-" then click the line to submit the report and the link will be updated and gets a "bp-" prefix if the report is submitted successfully.

  • please do not add the "bp-" prefix yourself