Firefox 29.0 hangs on close

[gai38]

I have Adblock Edge NOT Adblock Plus, but have this issue anyway.

[JayhawksRock]

I have Adblock Edge NOT Adblock Plus, but have this issue anyway.

Did you change your History setting in Tools > Options > Privacy to NOT clear history at close of Firefox?

[gai38]

Yes, I did it. I don't have the issue only if "Clear History on exit" is unchecked. No matter Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge.

[JayhawksRock]

Yes, I did it. I don't have the issue only if "Clear History on exit" is unchecked. No matter Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge.

ABP has nothing to do with the glitch... I dont know where that idea came from... Thanks for confirming

[LIMPET235]

nikol492006,
I split your post off to here...
> viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2833187
as it was not relevant to this topic.

[pashat]

Thank you for this post.

After I unchecked "Clear History on exit" option, no hung on close.

I was hearing it comes from non-compatible add-ons.. needs to disable them... new profiles... so on... blah-blah-blah.. nothing worked...
What a simple solution and it worked perfectly for me. (3 PC with Windows 8.1 x64) !

Thank you!!!

[ollieg]

Yes, I did it. I don't have the issue only if "Clear History on exit" is unchecked. No matter Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge.

ABP has nothing to do with the glitch... I dont know where that idea came from... Thanks for confirming

And yet everything works fine if I uninstall AdBlock (uninstall - not just disable!). WITH clean history, cache etc enabled. Or the other way around, disable the "clean"-function and keep AdBlock Plus.

Strange if AdBlock has nothing to do with it.... Pls. explain.

To me it is obvious it is a bug that includes Firefoxs cache handling in combination with AdBlock,

[tsunami231]

well the hangs have become more frequent. Anyone know if Mozilla any closer to fixing this? cause I not about to stop using clear history on exit, nor am i gona remove adblock.

Maybe when Cyberfox get to 29. will try that variation of the browser. this Firefox is still running bugg it starting to get annoying again

[TheVisitor]

Looks like there is patch for hang on shut down, but its also been sitting in someones review que now for 10 days... no idea what's up with that.

[Ortho_Fan]

well the hangs have become more frequent. Anyone know if Mozilla any closer to fixing this? cause I not about to stop using clear history on exit, nor am i gona remove adblock.

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As a "hopefully" temporary work-around, I un-ticked "clear history on exit," but prior to shutting down Firefox, I click on the History Menu, and click "Clear Recent History." From what I can tell, it does the same thing as the auto-clear feature. It's any extra step, but at least I don't have to constantly call up the Task Manager to close Firefox. (I also use Adblock Plus, and there's no way I'm going to remove it.)

OF

[tsunami231]

NVM cycling clear on exit on and off does not fix this issue either.

[tsunami231]

I have found way to repoduce the exe not closing though atlest on my end.

I go here
https://support.dish.com/index.php

I click the X to close browser and exe does not turn off. it happens every time i go there.

Clear history on exit is on

[JayhawksRock]

Is Dish your ISP? If yes, their support site probably makes a persistant connection.

[tsunami231]

Is Dish your ISP? If yes, their support site probably makes a persistant connection.

No it is not. Only other way i find to get FF close the exe correctly, is to have FF go back to the default FF home page built into the browser before closing it

[lexluthor]

Did anyone find any better workarounds for this? Has Mozilla even been convinced this is a real issue?