Firefox will NOT Open...Crash report appears...WHY?

AdapterDeviceID: 68a1
AdapterVendorID: 1002
Add-ons: [email protected]:0.79,{dc572301-7619-498c-a57d-39143191b318}:0.3.8.5,{BBDA0591-3099-440a-AA10-41764D9DB4DB}:2.0,{B7082FAA-CB62-4872-9106-E42DD88EDE45}:3.3.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:4.0
AvailableVirtualMemory: 4080922624
BuildID: 20110318052756
CrashTime: 1301350093
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1301336545
Notes: AdapterVendorID: 1002, AdapterDeviceID: 68a1, AdapterDriverVersion: 8.713.3.3000
D3D10 Layers? D3D10 Layers-
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 395
StartupTime: 1301350092
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 27
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
TotalVirtualMemory: 4294836224
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 4.0
Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 3 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 1 :
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 3 :
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 1 :
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 :
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This was one of my first results on Google searching for this problem, so I thought I should give it a reply now that I can reply from Firefox.
I'm really not sure what fixed it. One of the pages I read when I was reading about mswsock.dll suggested any issues with it might be caused by spyware or a virus. This seemed likely since I'm running a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit and had yet to protect it. I downloaded and installed Microsoft Security Essentials, and when I restarted my computer to finalize the install of MSE, Windows updated. When I got back into Windows I immediately started a scan, but the second thing I did was try to open Firefox, which actually opened. So three possible fixes:
-Merely installing Microsoft Security Essentials. Least likely to have fixed it.
-Updating Windows. More likely to have fixed it, but still doubtful.
-Restarting my computer. Most likely to have fixed it. It seems to me that rebooting hasn't been a magic fix since I ran Windows 98, so I often forget to try it, but honestly most of the time that's all a computer needs is to be turned off and on.
Good luck.

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