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Hi mariner,
I am happy to know that u also use firefox. It is like IE on steriods ( not for your ship I guess) . for your problem I think that running ( or installing) autopatcher on your XP machine might have corrupted or replaced some of the files that firefox used earlier. So eventhough the task manager shows firefox running, firefox must have crashed or might be running " incompletely" due to missing files. reinstalling firefox would be a good idea .