Firefox - freeze, runnung after quit

[Bonsaii]

Hi,

my system is a HP Compaq nx7300 with 32 bit LMDE on testing.

For a few days now (updates?) Firefox is not shutting down properly.
Meaning, when I quit FF (3.6.13), the processes keep running.
I noticed that only, when the fan kept running full speed and systems
monitor showed firefox and firefox-bin still running using up to
100% CPU.

Does anyone else experience that?
Any suggestion for a solution?

Sidenote, Firefox froze the whole system thrice now
completely, only hard off button worked.

Bonsaii

[zerozero]

Just a quick question if you don't mind: did you installed KDE over GNOME? And that strange FF behavior started after that?

[hxu]

I had the same problem just several days ago. That day, the same problem happened to xxx-config as well. (forgot what it was exactly. It's a configure tool used to configure some aspect of the desktop). But after that day the problem no longer happens. I upgrade the system everyday. My note book is Compaq Presario A400.

[MALsPa]

Not that this will solve whatever's causing this problem, but the command pkill firefox should shut Firefox down completely when it's freezing up like that, I think.

[DrHu]

You could remove the hidden firefox file in your /home/userID location, probably it is under .mozilla and let firefox restart and create a new configuration for you in that /home/userID directory: see if that cures the run-on problems
--if it doesn't, then it is possibly a type of bug and not simply a user configuration mixture..

[zerozero]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59975

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492059

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523824

[Bonsaii]

Thanks, zerozero,

the apt-get command did not work,
no gtk-qt-engine on my machine.

Maybe apt-get autoremove does,
will see.

Bonsaii