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Firefox32 process fails to terminate on exit.

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When I exit Firefox 8, the Firefox.exe *32 process does not terminate and has to be manually terminated before I can open Firefox again.

Had to roll back to 6.02 Win7 64 bit.

When I exit Firefox 8, the Firefox.exe *32 process does not terminate and has to be manually terminated before I can open Firefox again. Had to roll back to 6.02 Win7 64 bit.

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If the Firefox process doesn't end when you close Firefox, the process is "hung".

Please read the hyperlinked support articles.

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See "Hang at exit":

See "Firefox hangs when you quit it":

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It's not hanging or freezing. The Firefox window closes but the Firefox.exe *32 process doesn't terminate, making it impossible to run Firefox again until the process is manually killed.

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If the Firefox process doesn't end when you close Firefox, the process is "hung".

Please read the hyperlinked support articles.