I have had Mozilla Firefox for years...now it won't load, but Int.Explorer will. What is wrong?

When I click on the icon or the program it self, or right-click and press OPEN, I get an hourglass, then nothing. It will NOT open. I CAN open Internet Explorer, then open Mozilla Firefox, but what's the point in going through all of that.
This has happened 3 or 4 times before and after a few days begins to work again.
Once I was trying out Google's Chrome, and it quit, but after I uninstalled Chrome, Mozilla started again. Is it that fragile? I really don't know of anything that might have stopped it this time. I am about ready to just give up and uninstall it and go back to Internet Explorer...even though I don't really like it...at least it works every time!
Thanks for any help you may have.

This is most likely because of a recent Flash update (11.3) which has been causing some problems in Firefox recently.
You can try reading the following articles to see if there is a good resolution for your problem:
[[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
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[[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems]]

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