Office 2011 bug in word Can't close docx docs--what to do?

Today, all of a sudden I was unable to close some documents that somehow got saved as docx docs, without my doing so. They are all word docs and all related to my new office 2011 program. I tried to solve the problem by closing word, and then the color wheel came. Being new to mac I wasn't sure how long to let it spin so shortly thereafter I forced the computer to close. Please advise how to prevent this from happening. Thanks, Rena

In the immediate future you can try noscript or flashblock addons to block that script.
However upon more research in searching the current Firefox codebase: [http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=tabbrowser.xml&case=false] it seems to be referenced in there, but I do not see a reference to the port associated. The port is usually used for media. I would not know how to start to troubleshoot this, but are there any consistent steps/webpages that cause this to start?
Does this happen in Safe Mode, please see [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]? And does it happen in a fresh install?

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