543751 - Firefox continues to run in the background after exiting window

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cesar.ortiz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When you close the application and later go to execute it, an error stating that Firefox is already running on this computer appears. Task Manager shows the process running and has to be terminated manually.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch FireFox
2.Close FireFox
3.Launch FIreFox



Vista Enterprise with Service Pack 2
64-bit, 6 GB Memory, Intel Core2, 6600 @ 2.40GHz

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Do you use the Ghostery addon? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609

If so this is a known issue with the addon. Please disable it and report the issue to the extension author.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.