The other day I was going to create a new mockup, but when I launched Adobe Fireworks, it kept crashing after 30 seconds of the ‘loading’ pane.  Would a reboot fix it?  No such luck.  Uninstall, reinstall?  No dice.

What had I done since the last time I’d used Fireworks?  Put together a few flash demos, wrote some code, installed 600+ new fonts….

A-ha!  I opened Font Book, selected the User font group from the left column, selected all fonts contained within, and disabled them by right-clicking in the list of fonts and selecting “Disable” (or something of that sort).  Launched Fireworks again, and it loaded – no problem.

So, if you’re having trouble getting Fireworks to launch when all other Adobe apps seem to be playing nice, try disabling any fonts you’ve installed.  If that works, re-enable them as you see necessary.

And Adobe peoples – bugs that actually prevent an application from loading are kinda bad.  You might want to set it as P1… ’cause that whole designer target market might actually have non-standard fonts on their systems.

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