FireFox asks me to open firefox.exe on launch
Like the title states, every time I launch FireFox it opens a prompt asking me to Save firefox.exe or Cancel.
It tells me, "I have chosen to open firefox.exe from C:\Program Files\Mozilla FireFox" I should also mention that I'm currently launching FF from "D:\Program Files\Mozilla FireFox", I did have a previous version installed in C:\
Screenshot of the issue: http://i.imgur.com/H0j1C.png
Chosen solution
by John99Have you created some odd shortcut for starting firefox, or have a homepage mistakenly pointing at the Firefox program.
Have you deleted the old Firefox installation on C:\ ?
(CARE, do NOT use options to remove personal settings, you will destroy bookmarks and passwords, of ALL normally installed versions of Firefox)
Additional thoughts
- May need to ensure profile location and profile.ini are correct
- IIRC it was possible to lock-up Firefox with incorrect MIME preferences, it would look to open some file type, and loop when it defaulted to opening it with firefox.exe, I think that problem was resolved
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Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
Installed Plug-ins
- Google Update
- Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.44.16
- Version 3.7.1.9330
- Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.6.636
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.3
- DivX Plus Web Player version 2.2.0.52
- DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
- NPWLPG
- Pando Web Plugin
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.8.612
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
More Information
Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
15.0.1
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Profile Folder
Show Folder
Enabled Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Crash Reports
about:crashes
Memory Use
about:memory
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
Adblock Plus
2.1.2
true
{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Firebug
1.10.3
true
firebug@software.joehewitt.com
FireShot
0.98.16
true
{0b457cAA-602d-484a-8fe7-c1d894a011ba}
LastPass
2.0.0
true
support@lastpass.com
DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>
2.1.2.145
false
{23fcfd51-4958-4f00-80a3-ae97e717ed8b}
PageRank
2.0
false
PageRank@addonfactory.in
Important Modified Preferences
Name
Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
0
browser.cache.disk.capacity
1048576
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run
false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value
215040
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
4
browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
20120905151427
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
15.0.1
extensions.lastAppVersion
15.0.1
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.database.lastMaintenance
1349061926
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
8675
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
0
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
Graphics
Adapter Description
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Vendor ID
0x8086
Device ID
0x2a42
Adapter RAM
Unknown
Adapter Drivers
igdumdx32 igd10umd32
Driver Version
8.15.10.2202
Driver Date
8-25-2010
Direct2D Enabled
false
DirectWrite Enabled
false (7.0.6002.18582)
ClearType Parameters
ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer
Google Inc. -- ANGLE (Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.0.0.1041)
GPU Accelerated Windows
1/1 Direct3D 9
JavaScript
Incremental GC
0
Library Versions
Expected minimum version
Version in use
NSPR
4.9.1
4.9.1
NSS
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
NSS Util
3.13.6.0
3.13.6.0
NSS SSL
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
NSS S/MIME
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
3.13.6.0 Basic ECC
Chosen Solution
Have you created some odd shortcut for starting firefox, or have a homepage mistakenly pointing at the Firefox program.
Have you deleted the old Firefox installation on C:\ ?
(CARE, do NOT use options to remove personal settings, you will destroy bookmarks and passwords, of ALL normally installed versions of Firefox)
Additional thoughts
- May need to ensure profile location and profile.ini are correct
- IIRC it was possible to lock-up Firefox with incorrect MIME preferences, it would look to open some file type, and loop when it defaulted to opening it with firefox.exe, I think that problem was resolved
Question owner
My target path was the culprit.
"D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P main -no-remote
Not sure how I messed that up :p It's all in working order now.
Thanks John99!
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Glad to have helped, thanks for posting back,
Cheers, John