I can not get mozilla firefox on my pc desktop

i have downloaded mozilla firefox on my desktop pc, i con has appeared on my pc, when i double click on i con, p c loads but mozilla firefox does not load, in the adress bar , www.searchqu.com/406 appears, please can you help,
des weaver

Firefox sometimes will open in the background instead of the standard UI as normal after clicking on the desktop shortcut. When this happens I simply end the task/process manually via windows task manager & on the second attempt it will open normally.
To open task manager & end task/process
1. Press & hold at the same time Ctrl + Alt + Del
2. Select Start Task Manager
3. Select the Processes Tab
4. Locate & click on firefox.exe & click the end process button on bottom right. If you get a message saying the program is not responding, simply select end now when prompted.
5. Click on Firefox icon on desktop to open Firefox and it should be fine.
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