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I can open only one Firefox window at a time

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Reichman
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Yesterday I had to re-do my OS (Vista). I downloaded Firefox and it worked fine until a couple of hours ago. Now I can open only one window - when I click on the icon it shows busy for about 3 seconds, then nothing. I re-loaded Firefox and it opened one winder to show the Getting started screen, but still can't open any more windows.

Yesterday I had to re-do my OS (Vista). I downloaded Firefox and it worked fine until a couple of hours ago. Now I can open only one window - when I click on the icon it shows busy for about 3 seconds, then nothing. I re-loaded Firefox and it opened one winder to show the Getting started screen, but still can't open any more windows.

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Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Chosen Solution

Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).