Hi talgoro, This is not a fault, when shutting down the windows station, you are always supposed to close and open windows.

I hope this helps, -Taddle

Thank you Taddle,

Well I had no such problem with Firefox 3. The shutdown closed the browser without my intervention. Now I cannot schedule a shutdown when the downloads are completed and must physically shut it down. Also the crush issue happens the next time I am trying to run Firefox after a forced shut down. It doesn't seem like a normal behavior.

Hello,

I second this. Programs should close gracefully when asked by windows during a system shutdown. Firefox crashes instead. This happens with full version 4 also, not just beta.

When asking Firefox to close after initiating a shutdown (and it not happening), you find that it has crashed, become unresponsive, and one must close it thru the task manager.

I hope this is fixed in an update soon! Firefox 4 looks to be the best yet!

Indeed, the same thing happens with the final version. I thought it's caused by one of the addons (initially I blamed Xmarks) but I can't track it down.

same thing happens to me, it does not exit out completely

See "Hang at exit":

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
• Firefox hangs or is not responding - How to fix