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No Firefox UI if launched during boot-up

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Mar 15, 2026132 views
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Problem

At work I'm using Windows XP SP2. What I've noticed is if I launch Firefox while Windows hasn't finished booting up, it launches the process but fails to launch the associated UI i.e. there's no Firefox window at the end of it. The only way to resolve this is to kill the process and re-launch Firef…

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firefox.exe

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Fix for: No Firefox UI if launched during boot-up

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I've encountered this occasionally even with Firefox 3.6, on XP SP3; but usually it's enough to double-click again on the Firefox icon - that gets the UI displayed. Eventually. Patience. I assume that when I do this, Windows is running code in the s…

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