On 24 March 2014 18:16, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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"). > Usually I'd try with a new profile first, if the problem doesn't happen there, then I try to track down why it's happening in the original profile. (i.e. I wasn't implying he just ditches his old profile :)). > 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 -- Ahmad Samir -- 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
