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after installing the latest upgrade firefox just hangs when opening - was fine before. have tried deleting restore session but worse not better now

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after installing the latest upgrade firefox just hangs when opening - was fine before. have tried deleting restore session but worse not better now. no change with firewall.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

yesterday, after installing the upgrade

User Agent

Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en-GB) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.54

after installing the latest upgrade firefox just hangs when opening - was fine before. have tried deleting restore session but worse not better now. no change with firewall. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == yesterday, after installing the upgrade == == User Agent == Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en-GB) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.54

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Can this be fixed? I am dealing with the same problem ever since the latest update.

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Same here. Dreaded beachball and force quit required. Tried deleting and re-install to no avail. It crashed all the time before, and now this

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I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11 & even typing this message the characters appear so slowly that I could get a hammer and chisel and inscribe the words faster than the new Firefox runs. WTF?

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I have reverted back to 3.5.1 to get a stable working browser. Is there a more recent stable browser?78514

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It looks suspicious to me I haven't installed 3.6 that's why I'm checking this forum... has anyone had a reply ? Is is a virus?