When I boot F/F 3.6.13 2 versions are booted as evidenced in Task Mgr.

I've a Dell d/top, running Win XP SP3. Clicking on F/F icon produces the FF screen which rapidly vanishes and is replaced by the same scree a moment later. Looking in Task Mgr, I see FF.exe twice in Processes running. Takes up a lot of CPU apart from anything else, but why is it doing this? As a follow-up, when I use CCleaner it asks me to close down FF even though I haven't booted it up.

See [[Basic troubleshooting]] and [[Safe Mode]], my first thought would be to consider [[Is my Firefox problem a result of malware|malware]] but also see [[Firefox makes unrequested connections]]
Also try running firefox from the command line as
*''firefox.exe'' and as
*''firefox -safe-mode''

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ryansaint11,
this isn’t Apple support; this is a user-to-user forum. We’re just fellow users of Apple products here.
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