My FF icon is just bouncing & won't open. This & many prob's started when I downloaded Feedback version of FF4 before 4 actually launched.

Gosh, I don't know where to begin...
When I first downloaded the feedback version of FF about a month before it launched, lots of little details were malfunctioning. Minor, but annoying things like, my login bars were all prefilled with "enter name"...etc"here". I would have to double click it and erase it. FF stopped remembering my passwords....
I went back a version or two and things were just all screwed up. Downloaded FF4.0.1 today. When I click the icon to open FF, it just bounces endlessly and I have to Force quit.
So I erased everything. All FF files/dwnloads, moved it to trash, emptied... then downloaded again. Click the icon to open FF, it's just bouncing and I have to force quit.
PS: I am being forced to use chrome and I really miss FF.

You should still have the older version of Firefox (the beta installs alongside the older version). Check under add/remove programs. If you do, just locate the .exe in program files under Mozilla, and create a shortcut.

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