Firefox opens, stays in background. Does'nt display on my monitor.

When I click on the desktop shortcut, it appears that firefox hasn't opened. But when I tried to download the latest update using Chrome browser, an error message said firefox needed to be closed before I proceed. Firefox has always worked well in the past, but for about a week, this problem has persisted. I rebooted to close firefox, then used another browser to download the latest firefox, but it did not eliminate the problem.

I want to add that there are no related re-sizable options in in my mail account. If I click any link in the non-re-sizable window mail, that link is opened in a tab as set in Firefox options.

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