Firefox process does not end

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hylian90
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Firefox process does not end

Post by hylian90 »

Hi! I've been encountering a little trouble with Firefox lately, and I was wondering if anyone knew what the problem was. I'm using Windows XP with Firefox 1.5.

Basically, my problem is that the Firefox process does not end, even when I close the browser window. I have to open the task manager and manually end the 'firefox.exe' process. If I close the window and try to open a new one without ending the process, another Firefox process appears in the process manager, but no window opens.

Does anyone know why this may be happening?
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Post by Old BushVenom »

Does any of this apply to you:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Kill_application ?
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Re: Firefox process does not end

Post by ZakG »

I'm running Firefox 3.0.4(english launguage) on windows XP(sp3), and as of yesterday i've noticed the same behaviour. The info in that article does apply to me, and like the OP i have to manualy go into taskmanager to shut down Firefox. When i close the firefox browser it gives me the normal prompt i set it to, to clear cookies etc, but then when i try to open firefox again i just get a blank browser page(no bookmarks etc) and looking in taskmanager shows it already running from the previous session(so i have two instances of firefox now). There were some updates recently i think, but maybe that was for my add-ons only(No-script and Flashblock) and not firefox itself.
Any help appriciated(over what that linked suggested, which is basicaly what i'm doing - going into taskmanager to make sure firefox has actualy quit), and would an un-install/re-install be a good idea maybe?
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Re: Firefox process does not end

Post by Alice »

ZakG,
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Hang_at_exit

If you need more help after reading the above you should start a new topic as this one is three years old!
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Re: Firefox process does not end

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Further to Alice's post,
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