FF won't shut down cleanly

Firefox doesn't shut down cleanly. It never has. It often only does a "top kill" which leaves the bottom running. It won't start again until you kill the entire process. I have to open Task Manager, hunt around for the remnant of the application ("firefox.exe"), and kill it.
How can I get FF to shut down cleanly?

It strikes me as pure laziness to keep offering this same mickey-mouse solution to a chronic Firefox problem. Java, for example, is an integral part of Firefox and FF should be properly engineered and checked to see it's not choking on Java (or any other process). To say that I can always run FF without Java if my FF isn't working properly is simply laziness. If Task Manager can shut down FF, then FF can implement a similar, efficient shut-down. It's a bad design issue, not an end user issue. And worse, it's a design issue that's been bugging FF users for years because FF support keeps offering this same bogus remedy: "Uninstall all your plugins and try again." It's time to come up with something different.

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