Firefox will not start. When I click the icon there is no hour glass.

It will not go to the internet at all. Version 3.6.3 on Vista. Yesterday I was able to access the internet but there was a problem loading a page. Today when the icon is clicked nothing happens.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== 5-6-2010

Hi Iekard.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to see if the firefox.exe process is running. If it is, terminate it and try to run Firefox again.
If that doesn't help, try running Firefox in safe mode. If it works like that, maybe it'll work again in normal mode.

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