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firefox wont force quit

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It crashed on me earlier today and now it wont quit. I cant access a page, there's nothing there and I've forced quit it 10 times and nothing happens. When I go to activity monitor it doesn't show the app running but yet can't restart my computer because it wont close out of Firefox. Help!

It crashed on me earlier today and now it wont quit. I cant access a page, there's nothing there and I've forced quit it 10 times and nothing happens. When I go to activity monitor it doesn't show the app running but yet can't restart my computer because it wont close out of Firefox. Help!

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Close everything on you computer you can. Then force shutdown the computer. On most computers, hold down the power button until it shuts down.


Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

While still in Safe Mode,

In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP in front of the numbers/letters, click it and select Submit.

The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.

Using your mouse, mark the most resent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box below and paste them in.

aboutcrashesFx29

If you can't get Firefox to open, you will have to do this the hard way. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter Open the file browser / explorer on your computer. Note: You may have to enable Show Hidden Folders / Files. Enter this in the address bar;

Windows: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted Win 7/Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted Win XP/2000: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\submitted

Mac OS: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/submitted Linux: /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted

Copy the last 5-7 Recent File Names in the folder. Post the information in the reply box below.

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