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

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xecvtigger9
xecvtigger9
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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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Mkll
Mkll
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Hello, open task manager and kill all firefox.exe processes, if this helped mark as solution!

FredMcD
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How to crash Firefox (All Systems); Instructions here; https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/How_to_report_a_hung_Firefox

This link has a program that can crash Firefox.


https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+is+already+running+but+is+not+responding

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding