Firefox restarting process at startup

Try these steps from Mozilla and see if it helps.

Troubleshoot and diagnose Firefox problems | Firefox Help

This other link helps you reset your Firefox connection.

How to Troubleshoot a Reset Connection in Firefox | eHow

This other link shows you how to reset Firefox.

Reset Your Firefox | The Den

Hope one of them helps you.

Hey Manigue.
Thanks for replying!

Could you possibly tell me which link would specifically relate to my problem?

But I did try resetting Firefox and something interesting happened.
When I started Firefox, I loaded a page and it said the connection was reset. (Though only https websites showed this error)

I solved this error in one of my previous threads.

So this time I did something slightly different to solve it, I restarted my computer (the connection was reset error was resolved) but much to my disappointment the original problem still exists.

I'm just wondering in the process of getting rid of my first error with Firefox (the connection was reset) I might have checked a box or something that has started my current error? (having to restart firefox.exe at startup)

Here's a link to the thread:

Mozilla Firefox, error "The connection was reset"

Hey A Guy.
Thanks for the tip!

I tried running Firefox with safe mode but it didn't seem to help .

Any other things that I could try that might help?

P.S ie and chrome are fine, its just firefox .

Back up your bookmarks.

Uninstall Norton Internet Security - restart.

Uninstall Firefox completely - make sure the profile folder is gone.

Restart - install Firefox again while Norton Internet Security is not installed.

I'm only suggesting this because I saw it work in another thread. The OP also used Norton Internet Security and they figured that something barfed during a Firefox update due to Norton Internet Security blocking some part of the Firefox update.

You can install Norton Internet Security again after you have tested Firefox. Or you might try Microsoft Security Essentials for a while.

Hi UsernameIssues.
I followed all the steps you suggested, but still no luck.

So I don't think it was Norton Internet Security that caused that problem.
But I still think its something to do with that error in my last thread.

I took a screen capture when I just finished installing Firefox again:


So as you can see no websites loaded except some http's, and Firefox wasn't really working properly .

Then I restarted my computer, opened Firefox again.
When I clicked on a website it started loading it but then stopped loading halfway through .

Finally I had to close Firefox, end the process via task manager and then start Firefox again .
Then it started working like it should.

Anything else I could try? :)

You could try resetting IE again - like you did in that other thread.

You could try resetting IE again - like you did in that other thread.

I tried doing that but still didn't make a difference.

Just to make sure, click on the firefox.exe in the C:\program files\Mozilla Firefox folder. See if it works the same. A Guy

I also tried launching Firefox directly from program files but this didn't work either.

I'm pretty sure its just something simple that I have to delete or something like that because Firefox is working, its just something to do with the way it starts up.