Can’t reopen Firefox without restarting computer

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Hello All:

Currently running Firefox version 10.0.4 and suddenly any time I use Firefox and close it I can’t reopen it without restarting my system. Dialog box says can not open new window because Firefox is already running but not responding. I restart and all is fine unless I close and then try to reopen.????????

Should I download the Beta 13.0 version or would that just be the same way.???????

Thank You for any help….please
Glenn

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I just updated to firefox 12.0, still got same problem as above and VERY SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST, not sure how that happened!!

Glenn

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Here are some suggestions for your problem,I hope this will help.Here is the link;http://www.ehow.com/info_12183854_firefox-keeps-crashing-time-reopen.html

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Hi Glenn, try closing FF by clicking ‘File’ ‘Exit’ then open Task Manager and look in the ‘Applications’ tab to see if its still running. If it is, the best thing to do is install FF version 12 after completely removing the version you have installed currently (12).
On my pc’s I use Outpost Firewall Pro which protects certain apps including Firefox.

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I get this now and then. I’m still running FF 3.6.28. It has never shown up as a running application in the Task Manager. I have found that in most cases, if I wait a bit (5 – 10 sec.) it clears itself and I can open FF again. If not, what I do is open the task manager and, on the Processes tab, end the process “firefox *32”.

Making sure all extensions and plug-ins are current may also help. With all the rapid version releases, these get out of date continuously.

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Hang_at_exit”]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Hang_at_exit”]http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Hang_at_exit

I’ve never had to reboot to fix the problem, just clear the process.

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I’ve had to use Task Manager to close Firefox a couple of times recently after closing the program but never had to reboot to get Firefox back again.

For some reason the process doesn’t end immediately after you close Firefox.

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Open ‘Task Manager’ and click on the ‘Processes’ tab. Right click the ‘firefox.exe *32’ and then left click on ‘End Process’. It seems to take a few seconds for Firefox to get around to closing this process once you close the application. Or as rel suggests, you can just wait for 15 seconds or so and Firefox will end the process on it’s own.

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Your first post said ‘suddenly’, which seems to imply that you were previously running 10.0.4 without experiencing this problem. This could suggest that it’s occurring because of some change in the way you’re using FF – if there’s been any such change recently. Other than that, the only times I’ve experienced this were with older versions when I had a ton of tabs and FF took a while to unwind its memory usage for them after exiting (I suppose this could happen with newer versions as well if you had actually accessed a lot of tabs during the current session), or when I’d forgotten that I had a ‘downloads’ or ‘library’ (history) window open (both of which appear to use an additional instance of FF that doesn’t go away when you exit the normal one).

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