What's the question mark mean?

I normally hook up to broadband just by plugging my laptop in, but now when I try and open firefox a question mark just appears over the icon (same with messenger) and no other browser will open either.
It's not the interenet connection, so what do I need to do to my computer so it connects again?

Hi anii,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Are these icons in the Dock? Did you move your browsers from the Applications folder? To restore them, click on them and drag them off of the Dock...poof! Open the folder containing the applications and drag their icons to the Dock.
John

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