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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:15:43 +1100
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:56 -0500
"Daniel R. Curran" <drc7257@cs.rit.edu> wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and if there is a fix for
> 
> it. When I run firefox and then exit the program the process remains 
> resident, and it starts eating up the CPU. Does anyone know of a fix
> for this. I have been manually killing the process, but this seems
> like a horrible way to work with the program.

One more vote from me. Same behaviour with firebird too. So it's not
newly introduced...

Gautam