Firefox is open, but does not

I recently started having this problem with Firefox running in the background after the browser is closed. Problem is intermittent, but it occurs more often than otherwise. Problem can occur by simply open Firefox and then close it without any Web site - my default homepage is of about: blank.

This problem started immediately when I upgraded Firefox from 24 to 25. Extensions I have are Noscipt, Adblock Plus, and Fireshot. All are very popular. It seems that if I disable all extensions, then the question does not appear. But if I add the extensions above, the question appears. Therefore, it is not related to any specific extension - just the fact that there is no extension.

When I uninstalled Firefox 25 and reinstalled Firefox 24, the problem disappeared. When I updated to Firefox 25 through the upgrade process, or even through a direct installation of 25 without going through 24, the issue re-emerged.

What is interesting is the problem does not occur every time, nor is it connected to a specific post or profile that I created a new profile and imported only my favorites.

After disabling the clear history option close as suggested someone on mozillazine.org, up here, it seems that solved the problem for me, as many opening/closing of Firefox worked 100% since turning off this feature.

But good luck to the Firefox team to fix that have what they apparently broken in an update. If I sound angry, it's because I had to go through a lot (new profile, clean install, etc., etc.) only to find he never solved the problem while seeing always the answers must be a browser add-on and not Firefox problem despite a growing number of people have reported the matter directly related to the update 25.

I'm always to use Chrome more than before because of this experience and be it apparently Firefox and not an add-on.

Moderator Note: given that the thread owner stated in this post that the problem has been resolved, I have marked this message as the solution. AW

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