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Can I force a page to close by clicking the X?

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I'm noticing more and more that when I open a webpage and then want to close it, a bubble comes up asking if I'm sure I want to close it. I think most if not all of these are on sites from Publishers Clearing House. I don't mind entering the contests, but when I say I want a page to close I want it to close without my judgment being questioned. I'm concerned about clicking the OK to affirm that I want it to close because that could trigger an OK for who knows what?

Is there a setting on Firefox to force a page to close when I say to close it, without all the nonsence?

I can go into the Task Manager and force the page to close, but that completely closes Firefox, and any other pages I might have open are also gone. Is there a way in the Task Manager to close only one page without completely closing Firefox?

I am not very tech savvy, so if anyone can tell me how to solve these problems, please tell me in very simple terms. I appreciate it.

I'm noticing more and more that when I open a webpage and then want to close it, a bubble comes up asking if I'm sure I want to close it. I think most if not all of these are on sites from Publishers Clearing House. I don't mind entering the contests, but when I say I want a page to close I want it to close without my judgment being questioned. I'm concerned about clicking the OK to affirm that I want it to close because that could trigger an OK for who knows what? Is there a setting on Firefox to force a page to close when I say to close it, without all the nonsence? I can go into the Task Manager and force the page to close, but that completely closes Firefox, and any other pages I might have open are also gone. Is there a way in the Task Manager to close only one page without completely closing Firefox? I am not very tech savvy, so if anyone can tell me how to solve these problems, please tell me in very simple terms. I appreciate it.

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cor-el
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Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

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