Recent content by smlandau1

I too cannot kill the Firefox process, even using a third party killer. But I did find, that there is a file in my Firefox profile named parent.lock that prevents Firefox from restarting. I have to use a third party unlocker program to remove this zero byte file, but then I can restart Firefox.

I have been having this problem for several months now. Prior to that, My VISTA PC gave me no problems. I believe I have isolated this to a Port 80 (HTTP) problem. Since I can still download files if already connected, usually using FTP (port 21), or sometimes work with web pages already...