Tool bar stays on desk top when browswer closes

Question

I have used Firefox for over a year. I updated to the latest edition as recommended. Since then, when I close the browser, the top (tool bar) remains on my desk top while the bottom (screen) closes. there is no response to clicking X and the only way to get rid of it is to restart the computer. I thought it might be a problem with the installation, so I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it. It seemed to be fine until it happened again. I uninstalled Firefox again.
I have been upgrading as recommended, but I would like to go back to what I was using before. Can you help me with this?
I absolutely love Firefox and have recommended it to others, but this is driving me crazy.

Answer 1

You need a another blank external powered hard drive and the disks that came with your computer.
The first one stick it in and reboot holding the c key, select Disk Utility under the Utilities Menu on the Installer screen and select your EXTERNAL hard drive on left side and click erase, format HFS+ journaled and click erase...   (use the same drive name as the internal drive of the Mac)
Once the drive is formatted, quit Disk Utility and use the installer to install OS X onto the external drive. Reboot holding the option key down to select the external drive to boot from.
Run the setup and use the same user name as you did before, enter your network info and use Software update to get current on OS X 10.6.8.
Then access your internal boot drive and grab a copy of your user file folders (Music, Documents, Pictures etc)
You can now choose to download Grand Perspective, a free program to help you visualize where your data is and hogging up your machine. Your going to need to remove some data off the boot drive to another drive. Usually Video is a BIG data hoggers.
Remmeber to keep TWO copies of your data at all times, so since your deleting some off your problem drive (and may need to erase it, you need two other copies)
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
You can decide here what your going to do, if by taking data off the drive the computer boots fine and everything is normal then your ok.
If not you can choose to erase the drive using disk utility on the external and c booting off the installer disk and reinstalling 10.6 fresh that way, then you install programs from fresh sources and finally just some files from backup.
Use Activity Monitor in your Utilities folder to keep track of your drive usage, it should never go more that 75% filled, less than 50% filled is ideal for best performance.