Which brings us to the free Pale Moon (PM) browser, modeled on Mozilla/Firefox, but using its own code. Uninstalling/reinstalling FF does not work. None of them are simple, and after trying a few I lost patience. I Googled the message, and there are a ton of suggestions on how to fix it. It is certainly new behaviour in the past few months, at least in XP. Why this process persists after closing FF, I have no idea. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." I end up killing firefox.exe in task manager or in WinPatrol. And it has developed a new glitch: about half the time when I try to open FF I get an alert that " Firefox is already running, but is not responding. I was using Firefox29.0 with Sandboxie but it is now slow as molasses. ![]() Using IE8 is out of the question for me, now that it is no longer supported. I had hoped to completely disconnect my XP from the internet, but I still find it useful to run it next to Win 7 to troubleshoot problems on occasion.
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