Firefox / Iceweasel hangs at exit

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Published on 2010-03-09T08:13:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 8:21 UTC
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On my Debian (testing) system, I found that for some time now Firefox hangs when exiting. There is no window visible anymore and the process utilizes one CPU core to 100%. No other instances can be started until that process is killed.

I tried the Basic Troubleshooting guide but that didn't help. Starting it with iceweasel -safe-mode and then choosing none of the options but just clicking "quit" caused the same behavior. Creating a new profile also didn't change anything.

Any ideas what else I could try?

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