Firefox does not open right away

A few hours ago, firefox would not open right away for me . i was attempting to go on the internet and mozilla firefox 3.6.12 would not open right away for me. i had to restart my computer. also, mozilla did crash before that when i attempted to go into yahoo to check out my e-mail.

Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that 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:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Server+not+found
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firewalls

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