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on startup, have to reinstall Firefox, instead of going to start page

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after clicking on Firefox icon, installation of Firefox proceeds, have to reinstall each time browser is opened.

after clicking on Firefox icon, installation of Firefox proceeds, have to reinstall each time browser is opened.

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You should reset all the prefs via the Save mode start window or create a new profile if your current profile is from using Firefox 1.5 that your user agent shows to remove all remnants.

You have a corrupted user agent that identifies you as

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11

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In Firefox 4 you can use one of these to start in Safe mode:


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You can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)

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