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Why is my Firefox running in "stealth mode"?

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crocket104
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Many times when I close out of a web page and I go to restart I get a Message telling me "Firefox is already running and I must close it out before I can start another web page, but I have already closed it out and there is no Firefox web page there to close out as I have already closed it out. Sorry for all the "closing outs" but that's the only way I could figure to explain it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

Many times when I close out of a web page and I go to restart I get a Message telling me "Firefox is already running and I must close it out before I can start another web page, but I have already closed it out and there is no Firefox web page there to close out as I have already closed it out. Sorry for all the "closing outs" but that's the only way I could figure to explain it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

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You can also check out these:

"Hang at exit": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs

"Firefox hangs when you quit it": https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+hangs

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Tim
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See https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20is%20already%20running%20but%20is%20not%20responding#os=win&browser=fx8

cor-el
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You can also check out these:

"Hang at exit": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs

"Firefox hangs when you quit it": https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+hangs