How do I close Mozilla Firefox in order to instal an update of Adobe Flash Player?

I installed FF very recently at the recommendation of Blue Mountain.com as I was unable to send their e-cards with messages. Now I'm trying to update Adobe Flash Player and cannot do so because of the message 'close Moxilla Firefox to continue'. I've tried but have not been successful. Can you please help me? Thank you.

To close Firefox, in the menus select "File > Exit", you can start Firefox by using the same shortcut that you used to open Firefox originally.
I would ignore the instructions from Adobe. Adobe uses its own download manager but it is not required. All you need to do to install Adobe Flash is download the Adobe Flash manual installer and run it. For details on doing that see the Adobe troubleshooting article - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html#main_ManualInstaller

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