My firefox browser stopped opening.

Ever since I downloaded the new version of firefox, I have been having problems. First, because of my proxy settings I was not able to browse. I fixed that. Then, Firefox became increasingly slower and slower. And now, whenever I click on the icon, it just doesn't open. The web browser stopped opening completely. No matter how many times I double click it or right click and press open, it does not do it. The browser has not been working for about a week, and I have deleted all of my other browsers, so I cannot download another firefox without having internet. Also, I have virus scanned my computer and everything is fine.

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
*http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

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