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Firefox is not visibly running, but says 'cannot start as already running'. How do I stop it?

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Firefox comes up with ' is already running....close and restart', but no visible firefox is running and even in task manager it is not running. How do I 'stop' firefox? Restarting the computer did not help

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Just once or twice

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Firefox comes up with ' is already running....close and restart', but no visible firefox is running and even in task manager it is not running. How do I 'stop' firefox? Restarting the computer did not help == This happened == Just once or twice == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

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TonyE
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For possible causes and solutions see "Firefox is already running but is not responding" error - How to fix.

AnonymousUser
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i have same prob but not just once or twice, regularly-at least once a day- and still does it after restart. it's diving me mad....arghh