I installed firefox 4 but whenever I try to open it task manager reports it starting but the browser window does not open/show.

Yeah basically what I stated, but I have re-installed it, re-downloaded the intallation software, and everything i coudl think of to see if that would make it work, but nothing has.

Hi, i had the exact same problem with FF4, it got so bad that it would "not respond" near enough every click of the mouse, i could not find help anywhere, so many solutions from people who reproted the same problem, but none of them worked,, malwarebytes and kaspesky both reported no viruses, i started FF4 in safe mode, the same thing, i then started it over and over uninstalling one addon ata a time until i removed all of my addons, but it still kept happening, fortunately i found my own solution, i upgraded to FF5.5 Beta, that was 3 days ago, ive not had a problem since, i hope that this solution may work for you too.
it would appear that this is just a FF4 problem, good luck.

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