
Slow startup, recent issues
First of all, wow, if someone needs to google how to register you're doing something wrong ;)
Firefox has been doing me proud for a long time now, I've got things set up how I like them and it was all good.... up until yesterday that is, I installed some windows updates (win 7 64) and one of them didn't install correctly. Long story short I've spent most of the day trying to recover from some corrupted system files with no restore points. I'm pretty much there now, I think it may have messed with Comodo as well because I had to reinstall that to correct some issues. I have WLM and Firefox set to run at startup on an SSD, for the past x months WLM opens and a millisecond later there's firefox but not anymore. FF takes well over a minute to open. FF is added as an 'allowed application' in comodo. As a fault finding measure I disabled comodo and avg at start up but FF still took a long time. I've also reinstalled all three of them today (C, AVG + FF) and I'm out of common sense things to try, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chosen solution
SUCCESS!
I tried several times to make FF an 'allowed application' and fought against CFW's clunky-ass interface every step of the way but nothing changed.
Today I sat down and really went at it, disabling auto approvals and removing every single entry with 'firefox' in the name both from HIPS and the firewall. I finally got it to ask for a manual verification and since then I've restarted twice and both times it has started as quickly as before.
Thanks again for the support, I wouldn't have got to the solution without it and comodo don't give a S*** judging by the lack of response to all the problems members have posted on their forum.
To clarify for anyone else with this problem, you don't need to reset/reinstall firefox, the problem is with comodo and their shoddy bloatware (it used to be a decent program).
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I had this all spaced so it wasn't a wall of text, apologies for that.
Try to create a new profile to check if your current Firefox profile folder is causing the problem.
See "Creating a profile":
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem
Thanks for the feedback. I created a new profile, double clicked it to make it the active account and restarted. Unfortunately there was no change.
Firefox is sat there in the task manager but won't display until something else finishes it seems. All updates are installed for win7, sfc comes back clean, latest versions of FF, CFW and AVG with no viruses on the machine. All drivers are also up to date.
Thanks again
It is possible that your security software (firewall, anti-virus) blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full, unrestricted, access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
Boot the computer in Windows Safe Mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if this helps.
Thanks again for the feedback.
I'm having zero joy getting any sort of answer from comodo, apparently a lot of people are having various issues due to an update.
I guess I'm going to have to adapt to the slow opening.
FWIW I did start the machine in safe mode but it doesn't process the startup list so I opened the program manually and it seemed faster but I may have got to it too late (if there was a background process holding it up).
It's something I'd like to get sorted but I'm not sure how to achieve that at the moment.
Chosen Solution
SUCCESS!
I tried several times to make FF an 'allowed application' and fought against CFW's clunky-ass interface every step of the way but nothing changed.
Today I sat down and really went at it, disabling auto approvals and removing every single entry with 'firefox' in the name both from HIPS and the firewall. I finally got it to ask for a manual verification and since then I've restarted twice and both times it has started as quickly as before.
Thanks again for the support, I wouldn't have got to the solution without it and comodo don't give a S*** judging by the lack of response to all the problems members have posted on their forum.
To clarify for anyone else with this problem, you don't need to reset/reinstall firefox, the problem is with comodo and their shoddy bloatware (it used to be a decent program).