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@xxxxxxxx>: > >>>> 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. > >>>> > >>>> Ciao! > >>>> > >>>> Carotinho > >>>> Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! > >>>> http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com > >>> > >>> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan@xxxxxxxxx Tel. +420 732 326 870 http://www.progdan.homelinux.net
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