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Firefox crashes/does not start up

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bikram93
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does not start even in safe mode upgrade wont work too Alert message shown on startup: "could not initialise the applications security component.the most likely cause is problems with files in your applications profile directory."

does not start even in safe mode upgrade wont work too Alert message shown on startup: "could not initialise the applications security component.the most likely cause is problems with files in your applications profile directory."

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ideato
ideato
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Probably corrupted cert8.db file in profile folder, see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Could_not_initialize_the_browser_security_component



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cor-el
cor-el
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You may also need to rename secmod.db (secmod.db.old) in the Firefox Profile Folder in case there is a problem with the file.

Firefox will create new files.

bikram93
bikram93 Question owner
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still nthing 

firefox started crashing after i cleared the my recent documents folder
cor-el
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You can try to reset Firefox.

Reset creates a new profile and tries to import some settings from the old profile leaving the old profile intact.