Re: Task Manager wont close Mozilla
- From: "Kirk" <Kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:16:03 -0600
I'm having the same problem with FF locking up and being unable to kill the process. I am NOT running ZA or any other firewall software other than what is in my router. The problem I have with the explanation about the FF lockup being a bug and "well known" is that I can't find any reference to the bug anywhere. The other problem I have with the ZA explanation is that before I moved to my newly build PC last December, I was running FF with ZA installed on my old PC and NEVER saw a FF lockup that I wasn't able to kill using the task manager. On both systems I was/am running Vista Ultimate. As I type this, I have a "runaway" FF process that I can't kill and will be forced to reboot. At this rate I'm going to be forced to go to IE7 or IE8 RC1 :(
Kirk
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"I.C. Greenfields" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#FLTffCiJHA.4556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxCan someone tell me how to get task manager to close MozillaFireFox? MozillaFF keeps locking up and Task Manager will only close on or two of them showing as running in the window, but not the last one. Why is Mozilla showing as running as many as 4 times in Task Manager? Since Mozilla isn't open on the desktop I can't close it that way. Thanks.........
Do you have Zone Alarm Free Firewall installed? I was having the same problem until I uninstalled Zone Alarm Free and installed another free firewall. Just my half-a-penny input.
Cajunswabbie
U.S. Navy Retired
Very good advice. It is ZA itself that is holding Firefox hostage in the system area of RAM. Since it is in the system area, Task Manager can't delete it. You have to reboot to get rid of it.
I had the same problem and uninstalled ZA until they can fix their problem.
Questor
Thanks Guys... that may be it. Can you recommend another Free Firewall?
You could try Comodo. I haven't installed it on any of my computers but I hear good things about it.
The problem is a BUG in Mozilla Fire Foxz that appears to be well known. I wish I knew that before downloading it and searching out all the add-ons etc. It has nothing to do with firewalls.
Questor
You have your opinion, but I believe you are wrong. Firefox2 or 3 will run just fine if you get rid of ZoneAlarm. And, of course, if you get rid of Firefox and keep ZoneAlarm there is no debate.
The Mozillazine Firefox Forum has a lot of threads on this problem and virtually every one of them state that after they uninstalled ZA their FF ran correctly. This would point strongly to the fault being with ZA.
Now, if you go to the ZA forum, the threads there are all asking why won't the ZA people fix the problem. This also points to ZA being the culprit.
Questor
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