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firefox won't open

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Tried to open firefox this morning and got the error message "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). click on ok to terminate the application" tried re-installing and profile change but neither work. any suggestions?

Tried to open firefox this morning and got the error message "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). click on ok to terminate the application" tried re-installing and profile change but neither work. any suggestions?

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Hello,

You can solve this problem by: 1. Open firefox in save-mode 2. Reinstal firefox 3. Download firefox 4 beta: http://www.firefox.com/beta

none of these have worked. still showing same error message. firefox wont open in safe mode. :(