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Hamel
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Firefox crashes when loaded

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This started happening after I played a game of DoD over Steam.

As soon as I load Firefox, it crashes. Happens to .8 and .9, as I tried upgrading to solve the problem. Restarts aren't helping.

The error is coming from msvcrt.dll, I guess.

I just deleted and reinstalled. Isn't making a difference.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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If you have '98 or ME, this may help*.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;221946

Install the library update as per the guide, and it will either overwrite the duff file with a good one, or update it to one that works for this program

It may help with newer OSes, but the KB says it's for the oldies, (not necessarily a reliable guide, issues toend to stick around long after MS say they've died)

(*NB: 'help' in reference to the MS knowledgebase is a relative term. Usually relative to 'throwing bricks at it')
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Post by Hamel »

I have XP SP1.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Might be an idea to run System File Checker then (sfc /scannow), if the msvcrt file's gone blobby that should unbugger it.
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Post by Hamel »

Alas, that works not~

Very odd(ha!), how this problem appeared out of the blue, and I didn't change any settings.
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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