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after closing Firefox, it stays in memory and I have to reboot before I can start it again

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laptop, P4-1.6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, windows XP/SP3+IIS, FF5.0.

after surfing a while, FF hangs on searching the requested site without returning on time-out. When I exit FF it stays in memory (task-manager.processes) and I have to reboot my computer!

laptop, P4-1.6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, windows XP/SP3+IIS, FF5.0. after surfing a while, FF hangs on searching the requested site without returning on time-out. When I exit FF it stays in memory (task-manager.processes) and I have to reboot my computer!

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cor-el
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Try to close Firefox via "File > Exit" if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the title bar.

See "Hang at exit":

exorbit
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Thanks for the tip, but I have already fixed the problem by renewing my profiles-folder.