[SOLVED] Firefox 55.0.1 won't quit?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:47 pm
Are OP observing the following, or "is it just me":
Recently (probably 11 or 12 Aug 2017) I updated Firefox via package manager to version=55.0.1. (I try to stay, and am currently, up-to-date WRT LMDE.) Ever since then, I've been unable to stop/exit Firefox with either C-q (preferred) or mainmenu>File>Quit. This seems very odd: I've been using Firefox since it was Netscape, and have never had this problem on Linux. (Support for C-q on Windows was always unreliable.)
The only current way I've found to stop Firefox is uttering (in console) `killall firefox`, which of course crashes the running session, which complicates next startup. FWIW I consider this a kludge, not even a workaround, definitely not a fix.
Anyone else having this problem? Alternatively, any suggestions regarding how to debug/fix? FWIW, I'm running
Recently (probably 11 or 12 Aug 2017) I updated Firefox via package manager to version=55.0.1. (I try to stay, and am currently, up-to-date WRT LMDE.) Ever since then, I've been unable to stop/exit Firefox with either C-q (preferred) or mainmenu>File>Quit. This seems very odd: I've been using Firefox since it was Netscape, and have never had this problem on Linux. (Support for C-q on Windows was always unreliable.)
The only current way I've found to stop Firefox is uttering (in console) `killall firefox`, which of course crashes the running session, which complicates next startup. FWIW I consider this a kludge, not even a workaround, definitely not a fix.
Anyone else having this problem? Alternatively, any suggestions regarding how to debug/fix? FWIW, I'm running
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$ uname -rsv
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26)
$ lsb_release -ds
LMDE 2 Betsy
$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.9
$ gcc --version | head -n 1
gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
$ /home/me/bin/get_NVIDIA_version.sh
nvidia-settings: version 340.102
$ X -version 2>&1 | grep -ve '^$\|^[[:space:]]\|Current Operating System:'
X.Org X Server 1.16.4
Release Date: 2014-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 x86_64 Debian
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/LVM2_crypt-root ro nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0
Build Date: 17 July 2017 01:40:19PM
xorg-server 2:1.16.4-1+deb8u1+b1 (http://www.debian.org/support)
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
$ x-window-manager --version | head -1
metacity 3.14.3
$ /home/me/bin/get_GNOME_version.sh
GNOME version=3.14.1 date=2014-10-19
$ /home/me/bin/get_wm_version.sh
Cinnamon 3.4.6