Why doesn't Firefox close..?

[Origdogfish]

When Firefox won't start I go into Task Manager and find up to a dozen Firefoxes running.

If there is software that will close all open instances in one fell swoop I would use that as a work around to using TM, until Firefox is improved of course.

Thanks
-Jim

[Origdogfish]

Looks like Control-Shift-Q will do what I want. I will update if I still have problems.
Thanks
-Jim

[morat]

You could create a batch file to kill the processes.

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rem send WM_CLOSE message
taskkill.exe /im firefox.exe

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rem send WM_QUIT message
taskkill.exe /f /im firefox.exe

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tasklist.exe /fi "imagename eq firefox.exe"

Reference
http://www.computerhope.com/taskkill.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/tasklist.htm

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Tip: always use File > Exit to shut down Firefox, instead of the top right "X" close button

File > Exit uses the goQuitApplication command.

File > Close uses the CloseTabOrWindow command.

Both of these commands can be used to politely close the firefox.exe process. However, the latter command sometimes fails when there is a hidden window that's not responding correctly.

[Origdogfish]

Thanks for the tips morat...

I have been using Ctrl-Shift-Q every once in awhile and it seems to work well. You need to have a Firefox window open and active and it will close all Firefox windows.

[therube]

Note that FF is multi-process.
So when FF is running, it is expect to have many (or many many) different (FF) processes listed in TM.

If you have Quit FF, & if FF still remains in memory - as a (hung) Process, but you are at that point unable to interact with it, that is a different situation (& one that is not expected to occur).