After I closed Firefox it seems to be still running in the background.

So it is said if I trie to open it again later. I have to restart the PC, to be able to open it up again. Then the system seems to close down Firefox before restarting.

See "Hang at exit":
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
* [[Firefox hangs]]

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