Firefox won't launch with Vista

It runs in the background as I can see in it processes......anyone have a solution.
Thanks

Had the same problem. It was my nod32 firewall that was blocking the firefox.exe file.
Try to rename the firefox.exe to firefox1.exe and run it. In my case it ran withouth problems. I didn't had nod32 gui opened and so it didn't ask me if i want to block firefox.exe so it just blocked it. When i ran nod32 gui it asked me if I want to block it and I clicked no, now it starts normal.
So check your firewall or anything else that could block your firefox.
cheers

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