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firefox is in a running state, can't close it down

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firefox will not open anymore because there is a hanging firefox.exc running. Tried rebooting my system, unisntalling firefox and used anvi repair tool. Nothing works. They all say firefox.exc is running.

firefox will not open anymore because there is a hanging firefox.exc running. Tried rebooting my system, unisntalling firefox and used anvi repair tool. Nothing works. They all say firefox.exc is running.

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Hello, open task manager and kill all firefox.exe processes, if this helped mark as solution!

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