On Monday 20 July 2009 17:18:38 Tim Gelter wrote:
Andrei Thorp wrote:
Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 10:48:54 -0400 2009:
Damien Churchill wrote:
2009/7/20 Dario <carotinobg@yahoo.it>:
Hi!
In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto:
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think.
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In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, "lock" and ".parent_lock" that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me.
In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case.
I don't know what you issue is (though I don't find Firefox good in general), but I can provide you a way to automatically kill Firefox on firefox exit if you like...
(just a wrapper shell script/alias)
I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox="killall firefox && firefox" What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them)
I experience this troubles too, no lock files, just process running even after closing FF's main window. I have Arch64, FF 3.5.1 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil@progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan@jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 http://www.progdan.homelinux.net