Mozilla is open and 'responding' but remains minimized and refuses to work. Any idea how to fix it?

Question

Furthermore, mousing over mozilla doesn't show a regular window, but a snippet of the top of one. I've restarted both mozilla and my PC multiple times, to no avail.

Answer 1

The Firefox window might be off screen. If you make Firefox active, even though you can't see it, and press the following keys, can you get the window maximized?
Alt+Spacebar<br>
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<u>'''If you do get a maximized Firefox Window, you can use this trick: '''</u>
(1) Copy the following line of code to the clipboard:
newwin=window.open(window.location.href);newwin.moveTo(0,0);
(2) In the maximized window, press Ctrl+Shift+k to open the web console.
(3) Press Ctrl+v to paste the line of code then press Enter to run it. A new copy of that page should open in a window positioned at the top left of the screen.
(4) Switch back to the maximized window and close it first, before doing anything in the new window.
<u>'''If you do not get a Firefox window, try renaming or deleting the settings file which stores the last window position.'''</u>
This also will clear any changes you've made to the toolbars.
(1) Exit Firefox (if necessary, right-click the task bar icon and Close all windows)
(2) Open your active Firefox settings (AKA Profile) folder: from the Windows 7 Start menu, type or paste the following into the search box and press Enter to launch the folder:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
If you only have one folder, it's easy, just double-click into that folder. If you have multiple folders, look for the most recently updated one.
(3) Rename '''localstore.rdf''' to something else, like localstore-bad.rdf or localstore.old. Alternately, you can delete the file.
(4) You're done with your profile folder and you can restart Firefox now. Does the window appear normally?