Why does the Firefox service stay active in the background?

When closing Firefox, the service keeps running in the task manager.
I can not reopen the browser unless i close the service manually.
I have deleted Firefox and reinstalled it, it didn't help.

See also:
*"Hang at exit": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
*"Firefox hangs when you quit it": https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+hangs

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