Re: my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq

Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:47:22 +0800



    On 03/24/14 05:37, Bill Oliver wrote:

    
    But that's OK.  The *problem*
      is that if I kill firefox by clicking on the kill-window button
      rather than the Quit button, the window goes away, but firefox
      continues in the background.  Thus, if I kill firefox by closing
      the window, I can't start it again without running ps, finding the
      process, and manually killing it.  It's an easy workaround, but a
      minor inconvenience.
      

    FWIW, I mostly use chrome, but I have seen cases where firefox
    continues to run in the background.  If memory serves me, in my
    case, it was due to the flash-plugin not exiting.

    
    Instead of using ps, you can simply use "killall
    /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox"   (note I'm running 64bit)

    
      Worse, however, if I forget to do that and log out, appearently
      the next time I turn on KDE, it comes on as a background process
      but never shows a window.  Once again, that's not a huge problem
      now that I know to look for it.
    
    
    You may find it helpful to do two things...

    
    1.  Create a ~/.bash_logout which contains the killall command to
    make sure firefox is dead, dead on logout.

    2.  If you are using KDE and your "session management" is set to
    "Restore previous session" it may be helpful to add firefox to the
    "Applications to be excluded...." list.

    
    -- 

      Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts
  

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