332332 - Firefox.exe will not exit(close) itself in background application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239223

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[IvanLim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Open up firefox brower (firefox.exe will be created in background application)
however when i close the brower this firefox.exe should be remove from background application but it didnt.

So i try open up another 3 firefox brower (firefox.exe is being created making up to 4 firefox.exe found in background application)

i close all the firefox brower. ( 4  firefox.exe is found in the background application)

If i didnt check on the background application than the process of mem usage will be taking use up.

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to open up background application use Alt-Ctrl-Del

pls help 
THx
Ivan
Singapore

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox brower
2.close firefox brower
3.

Actual Results:  
The Firefox.exe is created (at background application)

Expected Results:  
cannot remove itself(meaning when we close firefox brower)

If i didnt check on the background application than the process of mem usage will be use up; I need to shut down Firefox.exe manually by End process.

Currently i am using P4 and having 2.5GBDDR2 of ram so is not a problem however if other user is using P2 or P3 and lesser ram it may cause lagging to its computer after open up and close several firefox browers. The more background application is use will bring load to the cpu... 

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to open up background application use Alt-Ctrl-Del

pls help 
THx
Ivan
Singapore

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

It would be great if you worked with user support groups listed at http://www.mozilla.org/support/ to narrow down what's causing this for you. Sometimes bugs in java applets or plugins don't let the process shut down, but that would depend on the sites you visit and wouldn't happen all the time.

You could try running in "Firefox safe mode" (google it) to turn off all your extensions and see if that helps; if so that gives us a starting point of things to look for.

This is not an exploitable security problem, just a bug.

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

Marking Dupe.

Reporter, if you feel this was done in error, please REOPEN.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239223 ***