Process of Firefox continues to flow, firefox is not accessible without Task Manager/end process

Closing of firefox does not complete the process firefox.exe. try to open firefox results in the message "FIREFOX IS ALREADY running" There is no way to open firefox without going to Task Manager and ending the process firefox.exe.

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