FS613
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|  [FireFox] Problem Re-opening Firefox
My PC is running under Windows XP Home SP2.
I am using Firefox 3.5.1.
Every time that I close Firefox and then try to reopen it again, I get the error message:
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
If I wait a few seconds, I am then able to reopen Firefox again.
I did not have this problem with earlier versions of Firefox.
Is anyone else having this problem? If so, how have you resolved it?
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Grail Knight
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| A search of this site found a recent discussion on this matter.
»[FireFox] Firefox doesn't close and open properly
Here is an older thread at MozillaZine that discusses this issue and also what some have done to solve their problem.
»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···t=695335
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miles7
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When you close firefox, the browser still running for a while before it completely off.
Alternatively, you can close your mozilla through task manager by press ctrl+alt+del, select tab 'processes', select firefox.exe in the list box and then click 'End Process'.
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B
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I am so very unimpressed by Firefox -- I helped someone with a very similar problem today. Because a phantom Firefox process was still running, they were getting cryptic errors launching URLs from Outlook e-mail messages.
I didn't check, but I'd bet they were pushed an automatic FF update -- another technology I disdain for exactly this kind of reason.
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DataDoc
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Greenville, NC | You can turn off update checking for add-ons and/or FF itself. |
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B
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| Yes of course I know that, but I'm not one of the millions of people (ordinary users) affected by these ongoing updates to what is, after all, a house of cards of software (not Firefox in particular -- all OSes and application software, really, which is exactly why automatic updates are such a horrible, horrible idea). And I can't tell them all to turn them off, or be responsible for the possibly negative consequences of doing so...
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La Luna
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said by B  :....I didn't check, but I'd bet they were pushed an automatic FF update -- another technology I disdain for exactly this kind of reason. -- B There were no FF updates pushed out, so that's not the reason for the issue. I just checked to be sure (manually, I have auto updates turned off).
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B
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join:2000-10-28 | There were no updates pushed since anywhere near June 18 (the date the linked thread started) through today?
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La Luna
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clubs: | I was referring to the person you said you had to help today, assuming the problem just started for that person. |
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B
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1 edit | Oh... I see. Thanks. The question is when was the last time they (successfully) clicked on a URL in e-mail; in other words maybe they haven't even tried in a while. I guess I can ask, but I'd rather leave them be, since killing the extra FF process pretty much fixed it.
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