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kawayanan
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Firefox Portable not starting

I have used Firefox Portable for a while (on a usb drive and in a truecrypt volume. Suddenly a few days ago, they stopped working. When I try to start them, nothing happens (no splash screen, nothing comes up). No error messages come up. If I look at task manager however, Firefox Portable is there and taking all the cpu it can (usually 98 or 99%). If I wait, nothing happens (its not just slow starting). I have to kill it or it just goes on forever. This is on WinXP, with all updates (who knows, the updates may have killed it - I can't think of any other changes). I have reinstalled, and tried also running off the hard drive with the exact results.

Any ideas whats going wrong?

kawayanan
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No thoughts? Well I have

No thoughts? Well I have some more things to mull over after I did some more testing.

I tried it out an my desktop at home (also WinXP Pro, fully updated). I have the same problem there. The program never starts, but take as much CPU as possible (98-99%). No error messages.

I wanted to see if I could see any error messages, so I decided to try starting the program from the command prompt. I previously had tried to run it by double clicking the icon (or a shortcut). Strangely,, on both computers FirefoxPortable runs perfectly fine if I start it from the command prompt. Any ideas why it might run fine from the command prompt but not normally?

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What did you run

from the command prompt?
c:/whatever/FirefoxPortable/FirefoxPortable.exe?
Do you have important info in your copy???
Otherwise, download a fresh copy, unpack it into some new place (NOT overwriting any old copy of Firefox Portable). If you have to, import the old bookmarks.
Should be fine...
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kawayanan
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From the command prompt I

From the command prompt I actually went to the directory and launched it from there.

I have tried multiple clean installs in multiple different places with the same problem.

I still have no idea whats causing it.

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