Re: Cannot open Firefox after closing her.

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On Friday 09 March 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>On 08/03/07, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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
>> >
>> > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/css.html
>> > http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_is_hdtv.html
>>
>> This is typical of a plugin problem -- it doesn't let the browser
>> 'end'.
>>
>> As others have suggested, look at the process list and kill any
>> running firefox programs, then start it again.
>>
>> Also, examine what plugins you are using at what sites you visit, to
>> determine what it is that is 'hanging' firefox.  The mplayer or xine
>> plugins can get into a mess where one of them does not complete, so
>> subsequent instances of that plugin wait on the audio device to become
>> available, thus causing firefox to not ever complete its exit.
>>
>> I should add that at my house we haven't seen this behavior for quite
>> some time now.  The mplayer and xine and firefox folks have made lots
>> of improvements in that last year.
>>
>> As yourself, open a terminal and run:
>>
>> $ ps | egrep "mplayer|firefox"
>>
>> and kill any processes (PID) that show up.
>>
>> Substitute whatever plugin name you wish.
>>
>> There is a GUI tool for process control that my wife used to use, but
>> for the life of me I cannot find it or remember what it was.
>>
That may be 'htop', handier than sliced bread AND bottled beer at times.

>> Good Luck!
>
>Thanks, I will try this. Good to know, not only for Firefox.
>
>Dotan Cohen
>
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