I’ve had this problem on and off,where programs would not open up, yet in the task manager, it indicated they where open in the background. That should halt the unexpectedįirefox and allow you to start a new copy that’s visible.Īn alternative for the command-line fans out there is the SysInternals Manager) or “Kill Process” (process explorer). Your desktop, then you can right click on it and click on “End Process” (task If you find a Firefox.exe in the process list but don’t see one running on (In Task Manager you may need to make sure that “Show process from all This message you’ll probably find that firefox.exe is indeed running: If you run task manager, or my favorite: process explorer, after getting (One way to force this on purpose is to set a scheduled task that runsįirefox, and then log out of your computer and stay logged out while that task That it is already running, but it doesn’t actually have any windows What I’ve seen when Firefox complains that it’s already running is simply What causes it, but I can show you what I do. Rarely have to open Internet Explorer for my normal surfing.īut yes, I have run into the scenario that you’ve described. Into websites that don’t work properly in Firefox, but for the most part I I’m a big fan of Firefox, and I use it every day.
