On 24 March 2014 08:14, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 23 March 2014 23:37, Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Firefox will only allow one invocation of itself on my machine. >> Sometimes, if I invoke the program by clicking an icon, it will come up with >> an error message that says you can only have one copy running. However, >> sometimes that message does not appear, and it simply dies silently. >> Moreover, I don't remember ever getting that error message when I run it >> from command line, and I'm a very terminal-oriented guy. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> I still don't know the fix, but the workaround is easy. > Did you try with a new Firefox profile? it could well be some setting or > extension in your current profile that's causing those issues. Or use about:addons to disable all plugins+extensions and see if the problem goes away (Firefox staying resident and preventing-relaunch if not killed so far as I can make out from this thread). If that does stop it happening then re-enable them one-by-one* and see if it comes back (* "other elimination strategies are available"). There may be something else going on as normally using the launcher a second time will just trigger firefox to open another window on the same profile, which it sounds like it doesn't on your machine. (While you can open a second window from within firefox itself that might also have implications for programs that try to open links in a browser.) -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
