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Yeah, that does suck indeed.

What's happening is that Firefox is still in the process of closing, even though the window has disappeared. When you try to re-open Firefox, it flips out, because the first process hasn't finished up yet.

The performance team is working hard on this on the "exit(0)" project. It's a P1 goal. You can track our progress in this bug. (make sure to follow Bugzilla etiquette if it's your first time).

Firefox dev here. I'm pretty honoured that the inventor of the World Wide Web is using a piece of software that I help make. :)

Thanks for everything!

Engagement rings for everybody!

Hey Chrome engineer. Firefox engineer here. High-five

Here's my take on it:

Firefox is built by Mozilla, a non-profit organization who's mission is to make the web better, more open, and more accessible, for everybody.

We have no interest in making money off of you. We're interested in making your web experience better, safer, and more secure.

If a choice came to us where we had to choose between making boatloads of money, or making things better for our users, we would 100% always choose making things better for our users. Every time.

If we had shareholders, they'd probably crap themselves. That's why we don't have them, and will never have them.

So, I guess there's my pitch. Our browser is built for you, and not as a vehicle to make us money. We'll never compromise on your safety, privacy, or security.

Plus, we're community driven. Come join us. :)