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There are two active Firefox 4.0b1 icons in my Mac OS X dock.

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My Snow Leopard dock has two active Firefox icons. They both have a glowing dot beneath (they are running) and when I command-click on them, they both point to the same Firefox app in my Applications folder.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I installed 4.0b1

My Snow Leopard dock has two active Firefox icons. They both have a glowing dot beneath (they are running) and when I command-click on them, they both point to the same Firefox app in my Applications folder. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I installed 4.0b1

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Same thing happening to me.

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Maybe it is the plugin-container process (Out-Of-Process-Plugins), although I'm not sure if that process is already implemented on Mac.

See also http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b1/releasenotes/ --- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Crash_Protection

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Same thing is happening to me (one time I even had 3 firefoxs running in my dock!). It happens when I go to a page that has Flash on it. When I quit the second firefox app I immediately get an error that the flash plugin has crashed... Please help!


[www.jakeywakey.com/tinygrab/e503c0a99b6e32d411f33d521c848aa9.png screenshot of the flash error]

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same thing too

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I solved my flash issue just now -- what I did was uninstall the current version of flash. Then I downloaded and installed a previous version of flash (10r12_36). That seemed to have solved the issue, I'll report back if anything changes.

Here is the link to adobe's past versions of flash: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html#ionComHeading