When trying to click on firefox I get a message, firefox is already running, and asks me to close it. I have no other programs running. I cant even get firefox thru google chrome or internet explorer.

I recently upgraded to firefox 3.6, I think the inability to access firefox began after that. I`m worried that I may have lost my bookmarks.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== For the past week, when I attempt to click on firefox ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4

This has been happening to me for months IN w &. It is REALLY ANNOYING.
MY WAy AROUND IT IS TO PRESS Ctrl,Alt,Del & select or start the
Windows Taskmaster.
Select Processes Tab & scroll down until you find "firefox.exe" , select it & at the bottom select End Process. In the next window press on End Process & Firefox will be closeD. Get out of that & you will be able to start Firefox.
A bit messy but saves re-starting the computer.
I WISH THEY WOULD FIND A SOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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