Here it is showing seven different processes for a single desktop app ‘Firefox (7). The Firefox multiple processes may vary from users to users.
a few extensions are installed but safe mode disables them. Go to ‘Processes’ tab and Click on ‘>’ sign before Firefox. This is a clean install of firefox on a newly installed (and updated) windows xp. Expected results: After relaunching and being told that. Computer must be rebooted to return to normal state. Confirming End Process returns one to the task manager where it can be seen that the 1st instance of firefox.exe never shuts down. visiting and then cancel when it lets me chose to download or open and then close browser -> firefox.exe remains running and a new one is created when I start firefox again. Selecting End Process or End Process Tree from Task Manager creates expected confirmation dialog. visiting the start page and then closing -> normal termination.Ģ. You have bookmarks pointing to help.Īll extension disabled and firefox started in safe mode:ġ. What is safe mode? Look in Fx Help on the Fx Web site. For the second, start Fx in safe mode to disable all extensions and themes.
For the first, look below the download button for Release Notes and follow the instructions to the letter. You all need to make sure of two things: (1) you have installed Fx correctly and (2) you have all your extensions disabled. wrote:Multiple instance of Fx running simultaneously is not normal, and it is not due to multiple tabs.
