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Firefox errors

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Whenever I click the Firefox browser icon, it will start up, and then close a second later. I have tried reinstalling the program, yet this doesn’t fix the problem. I saw a crash report the last time that it worked and ignored it. Is there a way to bring it back up? I tried to do it myself while running it as an administrator, but that didn’t work either.

Whenever I click the Firefox browser icon, it will start up, and then close a second later. I have tried reinstalling the program, yet this doesn’t fix the problem. I saw a crash report the last time that it worked and ignored it. Is there a way to bring it back up? I tried to do it myself while running it as an administrator, but that didn’t work either.

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We're sorry to hear that Firefox is crashing. In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.

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

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A list of Submitted/Unsubmitted Crash Reports will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Submitted Report IDs that start with bp- and then go back to your forum question and paste those IDs into the "Post a Reply" box.

Note: If a recent Report ID does not start with bp- click on it to submit the report.

(Please don't take a screenshot of your crashes, just copy and paste the IDs. The below image is just an example of what your Firefox screen should look like.)

Fx64Beta-aboutcrashes-unsubmitted

Thank you for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

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You can check for issues caused by a corrupted or incomplete Visual C++ installation that is missing runtime components (Redistributable Packages) required by Firefox, especially VCRUNTIME140_1.dll.

See "Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019":