Vista - Task Manager wont close Mozilla

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.........

"I.C. Greenfields" <none@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#FLTffCiJHA.4556@xxxxxxDo 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

--->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.

I had the same problem and uninstalled ZA until they can fix their problem.

Questor

"Questor" <Questor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23CVeWhGiJHA.3728@xxxxxxThanks Guys... that may be it. Can you recommend another Free Firewall?

--->You could try Comodo. I haven't installed it on any of my computers but
I hear good things about it.

Questor

"Questor" <Questor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:#G01XoIiJHA.6128@xxxxxxComodo is the one that I installed and have not had any problems with it or
Firefox. It took a little while for me to get use to it.

Cajunswabbie
U.S. Navy Retire

"Questor" <Questor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23G01XoIiJHA.6128@xxxxxxThe 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.

--->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

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

"Questor" <Questor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Kirk" <Kirk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2057111A-8E9C-4B66-89B7-70D007DA74A1@xxxxxxYep! That's my problem also... and it's not caused by ZA. An older version
of MFF works on the home office PC and it's always had ZA installed. I
think I'll uninstall MozillaFF as much as I liked the working versions. The
MFF lock-ups are constant today.