On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:14 -0500, taharka wrote: > How do, > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:36 +0200, 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. > > Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. The proper way to close FF is click > "File" on the menu bar & select "Quit". It should close both ways. > > > 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 > > taharka > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. > -- ======================================================================= handshaking protocol, n: A process employed by hostile hardware devices to initate a terse but civil dialogue, which, in turn, is characterized by occasional misunderstanding, sulking, and name-calling. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx