No Firefox UI if launched during boot-up

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Published on 2010-02-23T03:02:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 14:38 UTC
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At work I'm using Windows XP SP2. What I've noticed is if I launch Firefox while Windows hasn't finished booting up, it launches the firefox.exe process but fails to launch the associated UI i.e. there's no Firefox window at the end of it.

The only way to resolve this is to kill the firefox.exe process and re-launch Firefox.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior?

Update: I'm using Firefox 3.6

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