Firefox settings won't load after booting up windows xp

After starting or rebooting Windows XP, then starting FF 3.69 (really has happened with the last several recent builds 3.6x), my profile will not fully load. Example, all customized icon locations for addons will be missing. If I close, then reopen FF, everything loads fine. It only happens after a fresh startup/reboot of the operating system, and then only on the first attempt at opening FF.

Maybe your security (Anti-virus) software is checking files while Firefox is starting and takes so much time that Firefox can't access them and decides to skip loading those locked files. If that happens with sqlite database files like places.sqlite then bookmarks won't work properly. A second start works because the AV software had already checked the file. So you need to check the rules for Firefox in your security software.
A possible cause is security software (firewall) that blocks or restricts Firefox possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox.
See [[Server not found]] and [[Firewalls]] and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firewalls

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