On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Recently, I've found that I'm unable to open Firefox after I close the > program. I close Firefox with the X button on the Title bar. When I > try to open it again, I am confronted with this: > Firefox is already running, but not responding. To open a new window, > you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your > system. > > I've looked in /.mozilla/firefox/profile but there is no lock file. > Also, typing jobs at the command line shows me no jobs- not even > things that I know are running such as Opera and Kmail. > > This problem is reproducable: I reboot, and I can open Firefox. > However, after close, it will not reopen. How can I kill Fx so that I > can restart it, without shutting down? > > Dotan Cohen > This is not the answer but I am curious. I argue with my wife about this all the time. Do you get the same firefox behavior if you Quit under the file menu. I find it fairly common that firefox is running but the window does not open up on the deskttop. Then when I try to launch firefox again I get the same error you are getting and I need to run ps and kill all the firefoxs running. -- ======================================================================= Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx