I could not reopen a new firefox window after I had closed firefox

Everytime I reopen a new firefox session, i'm told that firefox is still running. Then I always have to restart my computer.

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

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Respectfully, that answer isn't particularly helpful. I have already demonstrated that middle-clicking (mouse wheel click) will open a new instance of FF, and other programs. This was true before the upgrade from FF4 to FF6, and is true on all my VM builds (Windows 7 default install with nothing but FF installed).
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My issue is that FF has changed its behaviour with respect to middle-clicking since upgrading from 4 to 6. I'd welcome helpful comments about getting FF to behave.
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Hi Richard,
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I've tried both Zotero & Firefox forums with no success:
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I keep getting the error "zotero could not be installed because firefox cannot modify the needed file". Any suggestions on how to fix this?

After downloading Zotero (a plug in that is in theory custom-designed for firefox), I get an error message that says "zotero could not be installed because firefox could not modify the needed file". That's all the detail I have.

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*https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_4.0#XPI_unpacking
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Profiles
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Unable+to+install+add-ons
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Add-on could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the necessary file.

I see that for the issue:
<Add-on> could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the necessary file.
The usual fixes include:
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- ensuring that extensions.alwaysUnpack is set to true
What might be the non-usual fixes as I have set both to true and I still get the message above.
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Firefox 10.0.x ESR:
*http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
So a new profile with no other extensions didn't work as well?
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Unable+to+install+add-ons

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egyLY78H7nE
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Using Jdeveloper 10.1.2 UIX to drop a MessageLovInput onto an Input Form I get the following error:
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Clicking on details reveals the following:
oracle.bali.xml.model.XmlInvalidOnCommitException: Errors
Errors:
Element text not defined in parent contents [node = text ]
invalid subtree:
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<text text="Find the collection (which contains the legal values for the lovInput) in the Data Control Palette. Select the attribute (of the collection) that will be set by the lovInput and drop it into this space as a 'LOV Table'. " />
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     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3123)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<page xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
xmlns:ctrl="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
expressionLanguage="el">
<content>
<dataScope xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<provider>

</provider>
<contents>
<document>
<metaContainer>

<head title=""/>
</metaContainer>
<contents>
<body>
<contents>
<form name="form0">
</form>
</contents>
</body>
</contents>
</document>
</contents>
</dataScope>
</content>
<handlers>

</handlers>
</page>
I have checked Metalink but can't find this error there either. Based on examples on OTN I have tried to create the LOV window manually but it does not work as expected:
1) The window is not empty when opened - i.e. data has been retrieved.
2) The filtering does not work.
3) The selected value does not update the Input Form.
I have pasted the code below in case anyone can point me in the right direction to work around the Jdeveloper error. However, I think Jdeveloper should create the LOV window correctly.
Thanks in advance for your help.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<page xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui"
xmlns:ctrl="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/controller"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" expressionLanguage="el">
<content>
<dataScope xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<provider>

</provider>
<contents>
<document>
<metaContainer>

<head title=""/>
</metaContainer>
<contents>
<body>
<contents>
<listOfValues title="Organization"
searchText="Enter search string here">
<contents>

<table model="${bindings.OrganizationView1}" id="OrganizationView13">
<contents>
<column>
<columnHeader>
<sortableHeader model="${ctrl:createSortableHeaderModel(bindings.OrganizationView1,'Name')}"/>
</columnHeader>
<contents>
<textInput model="${uix.current.Name}" columns="10" readOnly="true"/>
</contents>
</column>
<column>
<columnHeader>
<sortableHeader model="${ctrl:createSortableHeaderModel(bindings.OrganizationView1,'Address')}"/>
</columnHeader>
<contents>
<textInput model="${uix.current.Address}" columns="10" readOnly="true"/>
</contents>
</column>
<column>
<columnHeader>
<sortableHeader model="${ctrl:createSortableHeaderModel(bindings.OrganizationView1,'Url')}"/>
</columnHeader>
<contents>
<textInput model="${uix.current.Url}" columns="10" readOnly="true"/>
</contents>
</column>
<column>
<columnHeader>
<sortableHeader model="${ctrl:createSortableHeaderModel(bindings.OrganizationView1,'Phone')}"/>
</columnHeader>
<contents>
<textInput model="${uix.current.Phone}" columns="10" readOnly="true"/>
</contents>
</column>
</contents>
<tableSelection>
<singleSelection model="${bindings.OrganizationView1Iterator}" text="Select and ">
<primaryClientAction>
<firePartialAction targets="OrganizationView13" source="OrganizationView13" event="select"/>
</primaryClientAction>
</singleSelection>
</tableSelection>
</table>
</contents>
<filterChoice>
<choice name="filterBy">
<contents>
<option text="Name" value="name"/>
<option text="Address" value="address"/>
</contents>
</choice>
</filterChoice>
<headerInstructions>
</headerInstructions>
<searchInstructions>
</searchInstructions>
</listOfValues>
</contents>
</body>
</contents>
</document>
</contents>
</dataScope>
</content>
<handlers>

<event name="goto sort" source="OrganizationView13">
<invoke method="handleTableUiEvent" javaType="oracle.cabo.adf.rt.AdfUtils">
<parameters>
<parameter javaType="oracle.adf.model.binding.DCIteratorBinding" value="${bindings.OrganizationView1Iterator}"/>
<parameter javaType="oracle.cabo.servlet.expl.ControllerImplicitObject" value="${uix}"/>
</parameters>
</invoke>
</event>
<event name="select" source="OrganizationView13">
<set target="${bindings.OrganizationView1Iterator}" property="currentRowIndexInRange" value="${ui:tableSelectedIndex(uix, 'OrganizationView13')}"/>
</event>
<event name="lovFilter">
<compound>
<invoke method="setWhereClause" javaType="oracle.jbo.ViewObject" instance="${bindings.Name.viewObject}">
<parameters>
<parameter javaType="string" value="${empty param.filterBy ? 'NAME' : param.filterBy} LIKE '${param.searchText}'"/>
</parameters>
</invoke>
<invoke method="executeQuery" javaType="oracle.jbo.ViewObject" instance="${bindings.Name.viewObject}"/>
</compound>
</event>
</handlers>
</page>

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My system I am running Photoshop on is a Power Mac G4, AGP Graphics ATY Rage 128Pro chip set 16MB VRAM LCD 1280x1024 32-bit color, 500MHz, 1.75GB of memory, 1 MB L2 Cache, 100 MHz Bus Speed. I had installed the latest security update and repaired the permissions the day the problem started.
Now to day I started the system and went in and created a Guest Account. I logged into the guest account and started Photoshop. Low and behold it worked just fine. So I logged out of guest and logged into my main user account And started Photoshop. Wouldn't you know it.... It works just fine. I can open any file I want with now problems.
I got to thinking after I had done all of this that I wished I had tried to open a file in Photoshop today prior to creating the guest account to see if it still had the problem in my main user account.
I did not change anything else on the system and all seems to work fine now. So at his point I am really not sure what the problem was.
Again thanks for taking the time to respond to this issue.

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