Why does About Firefox 31.0 say, "Firefox is being updated by another instance" when OS X Lion's Activity Monitor shows exactly one Firefox PID.

Successful, but only after disabling all Extensions, quit-ting and restarting (didn't fix it), disabling the Plugin, QuickTime v7.7.1, quit-ting and restarting (didn't fix it), and then disabling the Theme, Walnut 2 for Firefox v2.0.25. Quit-ted again, and then, restarted Firefox. That fixed it.
I never have had Delicious anything in my Extensions, nor am I on Firefox 29.0.1, as per the other, similar thread, with this same message.
Am posting this result for the Community's info, and will have to see whether Walnut 2 can be re-enabled without incurring the same problem. It's really late now, going on 4 AM, so I am quitting for the night. Will try to finish up and report additional results in this thread, tomorrow, if any.

The issue was caused by the extension Delicious Bookmarks. Disable that Bookmark and check it out.
Start Firefox in [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Safe Mode to Troubleshoot the issue] and to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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