Mozilla resolves “Firefox is already running” shutdown issue

JMH · Aug 22, 2014

When it comes to running Firefox on Windows, the dreaded "Firefox is already running" error message when trying to launch the browser on the system is highly annoying.
This happens under certain circumstances, usually when the Firefox profile is still locked on the system while a new instance of the browser is being started.
This happens for instance if Windows tries to start Firefox while the previous instance of the browser has not been terminated (yet) correctly.
You can check if that is the case by opening the task manager of Windows with Ctrl-Shift-Esc and verifying that a firefox.exe process is still running there.

Mozilla resolves "Firefox is already running" shutdown issue - gHacks Tech News

bassfisher6522 · Aug 22, 2014

OK...after reading the article, twice, I still do not see what the fix is that FF implemented. Furthermore it states that starting with version 34 we'll see a new error message pop-up. Version 34, I'm still on version 31 and checking manually for an update, it still says I have version 31. So my question is; what version(s) after 31 will we see or will it go straight to version 34. The article to me seemed very vague and a bit misleading.

JMH · Aug 22, 2014

Are you going to add your comment(s) to the responses at the bottom of the article concerned?

bassfisher6522 · Aug 23, 2014

Hey JMH....I just read the article and didn't go any further down the page. Now that I've scrolled down the whole web page....I sure will add my comment. Thanks.

JMH · Aug 23, 2014

Good, & I note you have a response to your comment too.

bassfisher6522 · Aug 24, 2014

I just looked at the reply....thanks again. Sometimes I just wish people would write things in plain English or laymen terms for us simple folk, now I understand....LOL.

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Mozilla resolves “Firefox is already running” shutdown issue

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