On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:38:16PM -0600, Dale wrote > Howdy, > > I have noticed something that really bugs me. I sometimes have a few > Firefox sessions running. I do this because I have to be logged into a > website with more than one user/password. Here is my issue. If I click > the X box to close a session of Firefox, it doesn't seem to kill the > process. I end up having to go to a Konsole and killing the process > with either the kill command or pkill. Naturally, all the processes are > named Firefox so I can't tell one from the other. That leads to me > killing the wrong one at times. > > My question is this, why does Firefox not kill its processes as it > should? When I click the X and it closes, it should kill the process > right? When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that > session, I get the error that the session is already running.
Long story short... "there can only be one" Firefox process *PER USER* at any given time. Seriously... as regular user open up multiple Firefox windows, and execute... ps -ef | grep firefox and you'll get something like... [i660][waltdnes][~] ps -ef | grep firefox waltdnes 28696 11663 2 19:35 pts/22 00:00:07 firefox waltdnes 28836 28825 0 19:39 pts/30 00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox Only one Firefox process exists. (I can't seem to prevent the grep command from listing itself). > This has been going on for a while. What can I look for or do to > correct this? There is a workaround/kludge/ugly-hack. Notice that I said one process *PER USER*. I have another user "user2" that I log in as to occasionally maintain "static" stuff that I only want my regular login to only see, but not modify/delete/etc. If you create a second user (let's call it "user2"), you can do the following... # Allow other logins/users on the same machine to use your display xhost +127.0.0.1 # Open up up an xterm/wahtever and su - user2 # Give password, and then, as user2 firefox As my regular user "waltdnes", I can then... [i660][waltdnes][~] ps -ef | grep firefox waltdnes 28696 11663 2 19:35 pts/22 00:00:07 firefox user2 28791 28780 2 19:38 pts/9 00:00:01 firefox waltdnes 28836 28825 0 19:39 pts/30 00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox From the "ps" output, "waltdnes" is running Firefox with pid 28696, and "user" as pid "28791". You can issue a "kill" command for the appropriate pid. Note that unless you're root, you can only kill your own processes. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
