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Comment by Goronmon | Hacker News Reader

Funnily enough, Firefox died on my system today and I haven't been able to get it working since.

Just freezes after start up, even in safe mode (well, when it even booted up, which it stopped doing after a couple tries).

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Your sqlite files might be locked - try either removing or moving them and copying them back.

I made a token gesture at fixing the sqlite files, but I don't have the patience to manipulate obscure files in AppData to get a browser to work.

Stuff like this is why Chrome is my primary browser.

Chrome is a big black window for me, literally you see nothing at all. So I use Fx.

Both browsers have issues.

This is why I use Firefox and not Chrome. If shit hits the fan, I can still get my data (history/bookmarks/tabs) out via the sqlite and json files.

On my computer it sometimes doesn't open a window unless I open a second instance of Firefox, and then both suddenly load. Try that maybe?

Doesn't really matter if it loads, because it just crashes anyways, haha.

That second 'instance' (it actually keeps only one instance running) might not be helping in bringing up your windows. Try clearing your (startup/local) cache, it might have become really big. I do that whenever my Firefox takes long times to start - if you check in Process Monitor, at that time it is dealing with those cache folders.

I dunno, I just noticed it "pops" up as soon as I try to start it again. Note that this is the first start I'm talking about. I'll try that cache cleaning.

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