Firefox stopping shutdown with question
Hello. When I go to shutdown with web pages open, Firefox produces a dialogue box asking whether I want to shutdown. Can I turn this feature off, so that Windows shutsdown Firefox without asking. Running Firefox 35.0 on Windows 8. Thanks.
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Firefox will take some time to shutdown after you quit, because of tasks it may need to complete.
I am not a Windows 8 user, but presumably the warning is generated by Windows 8 because there are still Firefox processes running. Windows Task Manger would indicate whether that is the case.
Have you tried closing Firefox using its menu option,
- USE: Menu Button {Three bar icon) -> Shutdown {off icon)
and leaving it a minute or two before closing down Windows.
I think over recent versions Firefox may have had some issues with its closedown, but probably most have been fixed. Please etiquettedo not post in Bugzilla it is a developers workspace not a discussion forum but as potentially related background information
- Bug 916078 - (AsyncShutdown) [meta][Async shutdown] Make asynchronous services shutdown-safe
In fact IIRC some bug fix ensures that Firefox will itself eventually close all it's processes, but I can not seem to find that bug so I have linked to one of the tracking bugs.
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You've probably got this checked - Options>General>Tabs>Warn me when closing multiple tabs.
You can check the 'warn' prefs on the about:config page.
- browser.warnOnQuit
- browser.showQuitWarning
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
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alan_r said
You've probably got this checked - Options>General>Tabs>Warn me when closing multiple tabs.
No, it happened today when only one window was open.
cor-el said
You can check the 'warn' prefs on the about:config page.You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
- browser.warnOnQuit
- browser.showQuitWarning
Firstly, many thanks - a whole layer of preferencing I wasn't aware of.
I followed the suggestion. I made sure both of these settings were on false (one was already false). Restarted Firefox. Same warning. The screen says "This app [Firefox] is preventing shutdown". It's a timed warning as it continues shutting down after about ten seconds. Maybe it's Windows? To test, I had a Firefox and an IE browser window open (only one of each). The warning on shutdown only appears for Firefox.
Zgjidhja e Zgjedhur
Firefox will take some time to shutdown after you quit, because of tasks it may need to complete.
I am not a Windows 8 user, but presumably the warning is generated by Windows 8 because there are still Firefox processes running. Windows Task Manger would indicate whether that is the case.
Have you tried closing Firefox using its menu option,
- USE: Menu Button {Three bar icon) -> Shutdown {off icon)
and leaving it a minute or two before closing down Windows.
I think over recent versions Firefox may have had some issues with its closedown, but probably most have been fixed. Please etiquettedo not post in Bugzilla it is a developers workspace not a discussion forum but as potentially related background information
- Bug 916078 - (AsyncShutdown) [meta][Async shutdown] Make asynchronous services shutdown-safe
In fact IIRC some bug fix ensures that Firefox will itself eventually close all it's processes, but I can not seem to find that bug so I have linked to one of the tracking bugs.
Thanks all for suggestions.