Firefox does nothing when I first open it.

All that I usually see is, in the location bar, is "about:*"!! this problem has gone too long now.

It seems that "about:*" is set as your home page, for some reason. Try [[How to set the home page|How to set the home page]].
Also, it appears that you are running a very outdated version of Firefox. Mozilla will not continue to give you security updates, and many websites are considering dropping support for Firefox 2.0. Consider updating to [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ Firefox 6], or, if you prefer the older version, [http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html Firefox 3.6]

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