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Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:27 pm
by Clyde
Most of the time after exiting firefox I will get an error message when I want to restart...
"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"
I usually go to the terminal and use the 'killall' command to restart.
Why is this happening and is there something I can modify ?
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:53 am
by slider
Most of the time this happens due to the app not shutting down properly an remains running in the background.
You will need to show hidden files
Ctrl+h (most file browsers) or click view > show hidden files.
Check in
~/.mozilla/firefox/your-current-profile-directory/ look for "
lock" and "
.parentlock" files an delete them if they exist.
In case you are unsure, "~/" = "/home/your-user-name/" directory....
Let us know.
S
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:38 am
by nomko
This can be solved:
A - Manually
1) Find your profile. It will be at /home/[username]/.mozilla/firefox/[Profile name]/.
The hidden file(s) and folder(s) can be made visible by pressing the Ctrl+H in Nautilus.
2) Remove the lock files. You have to remove these two files: lock and .parentlock.
B - Killing the process
1) Open a terminal and type the folowing command: ps auxwww | grep firefox. This will tell you what process number Firefox has.
2) Then type this command: kill [processnumber].
Good luck!
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:23 am
by Clyde
I only see a parentlock ... which I deleted.
I was able to restart after deletion.
However, after that I was having the same issue ... parentlock returns and sometimes deleting it doesn't help.
Sorry, but which one of these is a process number to delete ?
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$ ps auxwww | grep firefox
username 2179 2.2 4.2 186624 65136 ? Sl 08:27 0:04 /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/firefox
username 2206 0.0 0.7 53192 12332 ? T 08:27 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/omni.ja 2179 true plugin
username 2288 13.1 4.3 301824 66452 ? Sl 08:29 0:04 /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/firefox
username 2320 0.1 0.7 53192 12332 ? T 08:30 0:00 /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/omni.ja 2288 true plugin
username 2371 0.0 0.0 3316 808 pts/0 S+ 08:30 0:00 grep --colour=auto firefox
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:42 am
by george238
Try this...
Menu/Administration/Systems Monitor/firefox. (may show 'sleeping')/end process.
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:26 pm
by Clyde
Try this...
Menu/Administration/Systems Monitor/firefox. (may show 'sleeping')/end process.
I end process and i can restart firefox ... but if i exit firefox it will not restart unless i go back and either 'end process' or 'killall firefox'. This happened after the version 11 update ... I used 3.6 for a very long time without a glitch... ever since the last auto updates, firefox has had some issues on my system.
Re: Firefox 11 issue
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:42 am
by jimzhong
I wonder whether you are using any FF extensions or plugins that prevent FF from quitting normally.
You may try renaming /home/[username]/.mozilla/firefox/(or back it up and delete it), and then start FF and restart system to see if the symptom reoccurs. If not, there is something wrong with your present profile.