On Friday 30 November 2007 11:27:26 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Everything works fine for myself and one of the users. For the other user
> > Firefox cannot be started and comes up with a message the Firefox is
> > already
> > running and it must be closed first. Firefox is installed globally.
>
> Firefox uses lockfiles to allow only one firefox process to occur at a
> time.
>
> There are at least two types of lockfiles which can be deleted should
> Firefox lock up in the way in which you have seen.  They are located at:
>
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>.default/lock
>
> and
>
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>.default/.parentlock
>
> where <user> is the username in question and <profile> is a long unique
> string of characters.
>
> Cheers
> Todd

Thanks for replying Todd,

There was no lock file. There was a parentlock file which I deleted. No good. 
Still won't open Firefox.

Bob S
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