So I'm browsing the internet with stumbleupon, when it leads me to a flash game.  I wasn't too interested in that so I stumbled on further.  But the game's menu sound loop won't stop playing.  I tried closing the program (firefox), but one, the sound wouldn't stop playing, and two, it won't let me open firefox any longer (it says it's still running but not responding).  The last time this happened I ended up having to restart my computer, but I'd rather not do that.

 Thanks for any help on this.

Bleeding Ears

You need to kill the process in memory. In windows you use task manager for this, get the processes tab, find "firefox.exe" right-click it and click "end process". Reboot also works.

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DS Nelson

Performance and Improvement Analyst

Zen Internet Business Support Unit

Hi,

Sadly, this is a very very common glitch (problem) with the Firefox web browser & it used to happen literally all the darn time in some past versions of the browser. Mozilla have improved the way the browser handles memory but this problem still persists, so your not alone in this experience by any stretch of the imagination.

**As has already been said, you just need to kill the process firefox.exe this then has the effect of releasing the grip the program has on your machines working memory set. You should NOT need to have to resort to actually re-starting the machine completely, you will have to reload Firefox though & there is no guarentee the same problem might not re-occur in future either. It seems to be one of those problems which has never fully been fixed by Mozilla & firefox.

Ivan