Unusual firefox not opening problem

I clicked on a thing in facebook, I exit firefox, go make a tea. Come back click to open firefox again, it looks like it wants to open but nothing, no message or window at all. It fails completely to open at all. I then proceed to do a virus check, nothing. I then do a complete uninstall which went surprisingly well and hassle free then a complete re-install. Upon re-installing, it says extracting 0% then the window closes and again just nothing. Ive tried a full system resotre to a few days previously but that failed as it said nothing was there. Admitadly im a pretty techno-phobic 18 year old(gimme the vinyl anyday!). But I really need mozzila back because Internet explorer has none of my bookies or tabs. Hellpppp!!!
== 3 days ago ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB0.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Hi,
It is possible that some extensions prevented proper closing of Mozilla Firefox. You may not be able to close Firefox properly due to extensions like Skype 4.0, Norton Toolbar and Norton IPS. Thus, restarting of Firefox is being prevented. You need to remove these extensions to fix the issue. At first, you need to open up ‘Process’ tab of Windows Task Manager and select the firefox.exe entry and click the ‘End Process’ button. You need to continue the steps until each additional firefox.exe processes are stopped. You can now start Firefox and in the Add-ons menu and open the Extensions panel. Here, you need to disable Norton IPS, Norton Toolbar and Skype 4.0. After a clean restart of Firefox, you will get the issue fixed.
'''[http://browser.iyogi.com/firefox/firefox-not-opening.html]'''
Hope this information helps you.

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