Quitting FF in any way (including the "restart" option from the menu bar) leaves the process in the background. It has to be ended manually.
It happened with 55 and it still happens after updating to 56.
Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
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Re: Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
What addons do you use, tovarisch Stalin?
Sorry for my poor English.
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Re: Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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Re: Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
https://imgur.com/a/cWp9WGHM113 wrote:What addons do you use, tovarisch Stalin?
I just did. I don't experience the problem when I quit in safe mode.DanRaisch wrote:Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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Re: Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
DanRaisch wrote:Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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Re: Quitting FF doesn't kill the background task
Fire 750, bring back 250.
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