After opening firefox, the tab on my taskbar says Firefox is open... however Firefox will not show up so I can use it.

As I open Firefox the window opens for a split second then disappears. On my taskbar it is showing that firefox is still open however if you click on it nothing happens and firefox stays inaccessible. I can't even get enough access to turn off addons to try without them if it improve performance.

Hi,
I had this problem. Solution was to move mouse over taskbar icon. When Firefox displays small icon right click this and select maximise window !!! I think somehow Firefox got minimised to the taskbar and would not reopen as a full window. i.e it when you clicked the taskbar icon it would pop up and then pop back down to the taskbar again !!
Hope this helps.

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