Browsers forum: Firefox Browser Not Closing Properly

I would review your add-ons, and see if any are causing any problems.

Starting Firefox in its Safe Mode might be a good way to check. That starts FF will all add-ons disabled. If that halts the problem, then you can decide how to check which add-on is causing the problem.

Firefox in Safe Mode - In Windows go to Start > Run, type in firefox -safe-mode and click OK. The space between firefox and -safe-mode is important.

If that doesn't solve the problem, then may be your Firefox profile has become corrupt. See the post # 2 in John Wilkinson's Sticky Post for options how to repair Firefox;
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6620_102-0.html?threadID=247371&tag=forums06;forum-threads

Mark

Just to check. I didn't mean to boot up the computer into Safe Mode, just to open Firefox in it's own Safe Mode configuration using that Run command.

If that failed, then you have the other choices of trying Firefox with all the add-ons disabled, then adding them back in, or trying a repair using John's Sticky post guidelines.

Mark

I didn't boot up the computer. I just did the Firefox Safe Mode.
Also, I thought Firefox is suppose to be such a secure browser.
I stopped using Internet Explorer because it had gotten corrupted
then Firefox gets corrupted.

That Google toolbar will get removed if you reinstall Firefox.

I can't be sure about RoboForm, but my guess is that as it is a stand-alone application it will not be affected. I won't stand by that though, and you will need to check this out at the RoboForm web site for yourself.

Mark

Well I was having the "browser not closing and have to go into control manager and close it myself before starting it up again" problem myself so I thought I look it up. As it was mentioned, that the add-ons could be the problem. Just off a hunch, I saw the add-on "winamp" I disabled it and then uninstalled it from the add-on window and now it's doing fine.

As a thought or a possibility, what I think it is, either there's too many add-ons or (if you have it on there) could be winamp itself, or could be just a single one. You can disable and then enable them just try it out that way and see which ones work. If nothing does I don't know.....Good luck and thnx Mark for giving out a tip for me

I've been having the same problem with my FF not closing down all the way. Had to go into my task manager to shut it down. Once I started reading through this thread it got me to thinking. I went to my add-ons and disabled winamp then closed FF. It reopened just like it was supposed to.