chiefjay Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 When I click to open my Firefox browser I get a message that says Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I've rebooted many times and this has been like this for a few weeks now. I've even uninstalled it and reinstalled. Thoughts? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 (edited) CTRL/ALT/DELETE bring up the task manager click the processes tab find firefox.exe and left click it and then click END PROCESS then try and re-start Firefox...oh and it might say are you sure you want to do this or some such thing...click yes Edited April 1, 2009 by keggerz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliaz Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 CTRL/ALT/DELETE bring up the task manager click the processes tab find firefox.exe and left click it and then click END PROCESS then try and re-start Firefox...oh and it might say are you sure you want to do this or some such thing...click yes Yap, FF is notorious for hanging with XP and VISTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 When I click to open my Firefox browser I get a message that says Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I've rebooted many times and this has been like this for a few weeks now. I've even uninstalled it and reinstalled. Thoughts? Thanks. Man, even Firefox sucks in Detriot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Man, even Firefox sucks in Detriot. that is possibly sigline worthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 CTRL/ALT/DELETE bring up the task manager click the processes tab find firefox.exe and left click it and then click END PROCESS then try and re-start Firefox...oh and it might say are you sure you want to do this or some such thing...click yes cont/alt/delete won't work with my keyboard. looks like i'm stuck. Time for a new puter I'm thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggieFries Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 (edited) cont/alt/delete won't work with my keyboard. looks like i'm stuck. Time for a new puter I'm thinking. What kind of keyboard do you have? Anyway, you should be able to right-mouse click on the task bar (the chunk of bar next to the "start" button) and select "Task Manager" from the menu. Edited April 1, 2009 by BiggieFries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Finally dumped fire fox a few weeks ago. Too many crashing probelms. IE might be vulnarable to attack, but at least it's stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 What kind of keyboard do you have? Anyway, you should be able to right-mouse click on the task bar (the chunk of bar next to the "start" button) and select "Task Manager" from the menu. Thanks. I did this and Firefox wasn't there. Ive downloaded the new IE. Will use this for a while. Thx guys. Damn puter has about had it. 7 years plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Finally dumped fire fox a few weeks ago. Too many crashing probelms. IE might be vulnarable to attack, but at least it's stable. IE is an ad-ridden bloated corpse. I have had about two Firefox crashes this entire year and use it exclusively now that I finally got the only website FF was refusing to load to work at last. AdBlock Plus, by blocking all ads, makes FF load pages about five times as fast as IE. It also has about ten times the configurability. IE sucks donkey balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I don't think mine has crashed more than twice either. I did have a problem when I tried to update the Google toolbar. Did a search, and one link said to shut FF down, delete/rename (safer) 3 *.ini files, and re-start FF. It worked like a charm. Here they are: Exit FF, do a search on the files below and rename them. Then re-start FF. The files will be re-created. * extensions.ini * extensions.cache * extensions.rdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 I don't think mine has crashed more than twice either. I did have a problem when I tried to update the Google toolbar. Did a search, and one link said to shut FF down, delete/rename (safer) 3 *.ini files, and re-start FF. It worked like a charm. Here they are: Exit FF, do a search on the files below and rename them. Then re-start FF. The files will be re-created. * extensions.ini * extensions.cache * extensions.rdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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