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firefox 16 will not close in mac 10.6.8

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I am using a MacBook (MacBook6,1) Mac OS X v 10.6.8 Firefox 16.0.2

When I close or quit Firefox the windows will disappear however the program will continue.

I have to do a "Force Quit" to get it to completely shutdown.

This seams to happen more the longer Firefox is running or it the computer had gone to sleep and is woken up.

I am using a MacBook (MacBook6,1) Mac OS X v 10.6.8 Firefox 16.0.2 When I close or quit Firefox the windows will disappear however the program will continue. I have to do a "Force Quit" to get it to completely shutdown. This seams to happen more the longer Firefox is running or it the computer had gone to sleep and is woken up.

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Hello carl.johnson47, a problematic extension can cause same problem, which can be resolved by disabling or uninstalling the extension see: Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems

see also : Firefox hangs when you quit it


thank you