Firefox is already running

Cork Skate

I am getting an error message saying that 'Firefox is already running, to open another window close the open one first' or words to that effect.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

firebox is not running in the task manager.

patrickc

Cork Skate wrote: »

I am getting an error message saying that 'Firefox is already running, to open another window close the open one first' or words to that effect.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

firebox is not running in the task manager.

i get that the odd time, go to processes in task manger and end it there should work..

don't know why though

Cork Skate

patrickc2006 wrote: »

i get that the odd time, go to processes in task manger and end it there should work..

don't know why though

But the process is not running in task manager, there's nothing to end. I turn off everything it know and try and identify what process it might actually be if its another process (corrupt, virus, etc.) and no joy.

ActorSeeksJob

I came across this problem in college. Can't remember exactly how it was fixed, but was a bit of a pain. Think the profile was damaged or something. Maybe uninstall FF, delete all it's folders and registry traces, then re-install.

Gadgetman496

Cork Skate wrote: »

But the process is not running in task manager, there's nothing to end. I turn off everything it know and try and identify what process it might actually be if its another process (corrupt, virus, etc.) and no joy.

When you open the Task Manager it will open in the Applications Tab, click on the Process Tab to the right of that & you should be able to end it there.

Steo46

The process is called firefox.exe. Should be easy enough to find.

Cork Skate

gadgetman496 wrote: »

When you open the Task Manager it will open in the Applications Tab, click on the Process Tab to the right of that & you should be able to end it there.

Steo46 wrote: »

The process is called firefox.exe. Should be easy enough to find.

Lads, the process isn't there. I was in the processes tab and theres no sign of it.

ActorSeeksJob wrote: »

I came across this problem in college. Can't remember exactly how it was fixed, but was a bit of a pain. Think the profile was damaged or something. Maybe uninstall FF, delete all it's folders and registry traces, then re-install.

Yeah, i did that, uninstall, gut the registry, reboot, downloaded the newest version, install and still the same. What profile was damaged? FF or my Windows profile?

Taildragon

The Firefox profile. Have a read here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Creating_a_new_profile

BTW, would this problem have occurred in the last week or so? My FF installation was set to automagically update, and since the v2.0.0.9 release on the 1st Nov I am experiencing very high cpu% if more than 3 or 4 tabs open.

Cork Skate

Cork Skate wrote: »

Yeah, i did that, uninstall, gut the registry, reboot, downloaded the newest version, install and still the same. What profile was damaged? FF or my Windows profile?

I did this again (logged in as administrator) but i cleaned the registry first and then deleted the folders, rebooted and reinstall .... sorted.

Taildragon wrote: »

The Firefox profile. Have a read here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Creating_a_new_profile

BTW, would this problem have occurred in the last week or so? My FF installation was set to automagically update, and since the v2.0.0.9 release on the 1st Nov I am experiencing very high cpu% if more than 3 or 4 tabs open.

Handy website. I had an older version of firefox, 2.0.0.1 i think. No problems with cpu, well not yet anyway

Taildragon

I've just found the repository for previous releases. I'll revert to v2.0.0.8 to see if my problem goes away...

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/