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" <> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> Can 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
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> I had the same problem and uninstalled ZA until they can fix their
>>>>> problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Questor
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>>>> Thanks Guys... that may be it. Can you recommend another Free Firewall?
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>>> You could try Comodo. I haven't installed it on any of my computers but
>>> I hear good things about it.
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>> 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.
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>>> Questor
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> 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