I went to the Firefox support site and saw that another user has reported the popup problem.
I updated a few hours ago and since then:
1. Popup windows WILL NOT OPEN even on sites where I've chosen to allow them. These aren't advertising popups; they're popup windows within a web-based application. I've tried using IE and the popups work there.
2. When I shut down Firefox, firefox.exe is not terminated and I have to kill it thru Task Manager or the browser won't reload.
3. When I reload the browser, it fails to load my home page; I have to close it and try a 2nd time, and that works.
Any easy way to back out of an update? I'd like to go back to v1.0.2 until these issues are ironed out.

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