I think you are running into this issue:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-22107
This was caused by a change made by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8. Flex
Builder and Flash Builder launch their own instance of iexplore.exe, and when
you click Terminate, they kill that process. The problem is that as of IE8,
when we launch iexplore.exe, the new iexplore.exe checks to see if there is
already another instance of iexplore.exe. If it finds one, it sends a message
to the existing instance saying open this URL, and then the new instance
terminates.
Flex Builder doesn't know that all this stuff is happening, so it tries to
terminate the new process, but the new process is already gone.
I have fixed this in Flash Builder 4. The fix was to launch Internet Explorer
with the -noframemerging option, which tells it to open the URL in the new
process rather than delegating to an existing process.
If you are on Flex Builder 3, I'm not quite sure how you would be able to work
around this, other than the way you already found.
Hope that helps.
- Mike Morearty, Flash Builder team
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, brian.raymes brian.ray...@... wrote:
I have the same problem with Windows Vista and IE 8 (fairly certain it
happened with IE 7 as well). Terminating or Terminate/Relaunch leaves behind
an instance of IE... Lame!
I ended up downloading KillProcess from
http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/processutil/processutil.htm and wrote a
small bat file to kill all IE instances. Placed it by my clock on the start
bar and walla! I now use it to kill IE in-between flex debugging sessions.
I would really like to know if anyone has a better fix, say, Eclipse actually
terminating the browser session like it should...
Brian
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Rick Schmitty flexcode@ wrote:
I recently upgraded to windows 7 and the other day I noticed my
computer running terribly slow. At first I went to blame win7 but
after looking at my task manager I had about 100 iexplore.exe
instances going... Killing them all brought the machine back to
normal. I use FF as my browser but I debug with IE since the window
closes after I stop a debug session, or so I thought. Watching the
task manager I launched a debug session and 2 iexpore instances were
launched. Terminating the debug session and only 1 of them are
removed. I hit debug/terminate a few more times and saw I had that
many more instances of iexplore running
I tried 'Run as Administrator' but same effect
Using FB3 plugin to Eclipse 3.4.2
Any configuration I am missing?
