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General Category => Off the Record => Computer Affairs => Topic started by: Josephus on October 10, 2011, 10:33:43 AM

Title: Firefox is always open
Post by: Josephus on October 10, 2011, 10:33:43 AM
I'm having an issue with Firefox. It just started today. When I go to open it, it says it's already open on my system, or something. I can shut down the process from the task manager, and then it starts up again the first time, but after I close it, the same thing happens.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Title: Re: Firefox is always open
Post by: DontSayBanana on October 10, 2011, 11:15:03 PM
Quote from: Josephus on October 10, 2011, 10:33:43 AM
I'm having an issue with Firefox. It just started today. When I go to open it, it says it's already open on my system, or something. I can shut down the process from the task manager, and then it starts up again the first time, but after I close it, the same thing happens.

Any ideas how to fix this?

How long have you been giving it for the process to terminate?  I find firefox.exe is usually one of the slowest-to-kill processes on my system...
Title: Re: Firefox is always open
Post by: Lucidor on October 11, 2011, 12:51:41 AM
Did you try a clean install or just reinstall it on top of the other installation?
Title: Re: Firefox is always open
Post by: Josephus on October 11, 2011, 09:33:14 AM
It started to work again by itself; but that was very odd.