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Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

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fireater17
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Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

This message comes up when I try to open firefox. I have looked at all the siggestions on the web and thothing works. I have gone in to task manager and it is not running. I even removed it and re-instaled it. No luck. I just had an new update download to the computer before I shut down last and I am now runing Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. This message comes up when I try to open firefox. I have looked at all the siggestions on the web and thothing works. I have gone in to task manager and it is not running. I even removed it and re-instaled it. No luck. I just had an new update download to the computer before I shut down last and I am now runing Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

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cor-el
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Make sure that you have an existing default profile folder.

fireater17
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Thank you I will look at those and see if that fixes it.