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Following the latest upgrade how to exit Firefox without shuting down

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Computer type: Mac BookPro Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 I use both the Mac Safari & Firefox browsers for blogging. Since yesterday when I downloaded the Mozilla Firefox upgrade I am unable to exit Firefox at all (no button or tab to select an exit to return to desktop and Safire). To exit Firefox I must press the manual quit button to restart the computer. I need a Firefox exit link out to reenter the Safire browser and desktop without shutting down the computer.

Computer type: Mac BookPro Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 I use both the Mac Safari & Firefox browsers for blogging. Since yesterday when I downloaded the Mozilla Firefox upgrade I am unable to exit Firefox at all (no button or tab to select an exit to return to desktop and Safire). To exit Firefox I must press the manual quit button to restart the computer. I need a Firefox exit link out to reenter the Safire browser and desktop without shutting down the computer.

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I use Windows, so I'm not sure, but could you check for this:

If you click the "3-bar" menu button on the main toolbar, when the panel opens, there should be an on/off button on the lower right corner of the menu to exit Firefox. Is that there on Mac?

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I use Windows, so I'm not sure, but could you check for this:

If you click the "3-bar" menu button on the main toolbar, when the panel opens, there should be an on/off button on the lower right corner of the menu to exit Firefox. Is that there on Mac?

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You should see the Firefox menu bar on Mac as that is controlled by the Mac OS and have Firefox > Quit.

Try to remove the Firefox plist file (org.mozilla.firefox.plist).

Go to "~/Library/Preferences" and remove the plist file for Firefox (org.mozilla.firefox.plist)