Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
[Re: mbday630]
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02/16/18 07:02 PM
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You really can't open Firefox twice for two things you want to do. You can have multiple TABS though.
Did you close out the extra one? Can't imagine two instances of it running at the same time. Multiple tabs, yes. But not multiple instances of the program. Maybe one didn't close out all the way. You might try looking down in the task manager processes, not applications, BEFORE you open up Firefox. I've had it happen there was an instance of Firefox running down there. When I stopped the process, everything was OK.
Sounds like that adapter was just what you needed. Hope the new card works OK for you!
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Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
[Re: mbday630]
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02/17/18 11:40 AM
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I was just wondering if that had something to do with that security alert thing that I get. when I get that, there are like 5 firefox things to get out of so firefox seems to be adding them. Apparently it's normal to get multiple processes for Firefox in Task Manager with recent versions of Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1172713
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Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
[Re: mbday630]
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02/17/18 12:29 PM
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Are you sure you're not talking about have multiple TABS open? Once Firefox is open, you can minimize it and double click on the icon all you want and it won't open itself again.
I've had Firefox not close properly and still be running in my processes as in the link Jenny posted, although it's been a long time since it happened. If it is running in processes, I cannot open it from the icon because it thinks it is already open.
I think it was rmelone here on GB who recently just decided to stay away from Yahoo because of the stupid security alert.
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Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
[Re: mbday630]
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02/17/18 05:19 PM
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OK... NOW my dense brain has figured out what you mean! Yes, you can do that! But my question would be why open up another instance of Firefox when you can just open up multiple tabs and simply switch between them? That way you will only have Firefox running ONCE, not 3 or 4 or 5 times in the background. I'm sure what is happening when you do this is that one or more of them just didn't get closed out.
Just open new tabs and you won't have this problem!
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Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
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02/17/18 07:39 PM
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If you continue to have multiple instances of Firefox open instead of switching between tabs, this problem will definitely continue. I would suggest opening up your task manager each time you close out Firefox and make sure there isn't still one or two of them running. Not sure how much resources it takes to run multiple instances of a web browser but it could slow your computer down. You can always look in the RAM and CPU usage.
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Re: why so many firefox when I start up?
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02/18/18 12:01 AM
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No... no reason for it to cause that. Who knows... it's Yahoo. Why don't you try using an Ad Blocker like UBlock Origin? Maybe that will help.
I'm just so happy to hear your new video card is working for you!
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